Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
By
Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
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Publisher:
O'Reilly
Pub Date:
August 2006
Print ISBN-10:
0-596-52812-4
Print ISBN-13:
978-0-59-652812-6
Pages:
542
Table of Contents
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Index
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction to Regular Expressions
Section 1.1. Solving Real Problems
Section 1.2. Regular Expressions as a Language
Section 1.3. The Regular-Expression Frame of Mind
Section 1.4. Egrep Metacharacters
Section 1.5. Expanding the Foundation
Section 1.6. Personal Glimpses
Chapter 2. Extended Introductory Examples
Section 2.1. About the Examples
Section 2.2. Matching Text with Regular Expressions
Section 2.3. Modifying Text with Regular Expressions
Chapter 3. Overview of Regular Expression Features and Flavors
Section 3.1.
Section 3.2. A Casual Stroll Across the Regex Landscape
Section 3.3. Care and Handling of Regular Expressions
Section 3.4. Strings, Character Encodings, and Modes
Section 3.5. Common Metacharacters and Features
Section 3.6. Guide to the Advanced Chapters
Chapter 4. The Mechanics of Expression Processing
Section 4.1. Start Your Engines!
Section 4.2. Match Basics
Section 4.3. Regex-Directed Versus Text-Directed
Section 4.4. Backtracking
Section 4.5. More About Greediness and Backtracking
Section 4.6. NFA, DFA, and POSIX
Section 4.7. Summary
Chapter 5. Practical Regex Techniques
Section 5.1. Regex Balancing Act
Section 5.2. A Few Short Examples
Section 5.3. HTML-Related Examples
Section 5.4. Extended Examples
Chapter 6. Crafting an Efficient Expression
Section 6.1.
Section 6.2. A Sobering Example
Section 6.3. A Global View of Backtracking
Section 6.4. Benchmarking
Section 6.5. Common Optimizations
Section 6.6. Techniques for Faster Expressions
Section 6.7. Unrolling the Loop
Section 6.8. The Freeflowing Regex
Section 6.9. In Summary: Think!
Chapter 7. Perl
Section 7.1. Regular Expressions as a Language Component
Section 7.2. Perl's Regex Flavor
Section 7.3. Regex-Related Perlisms
Section 7.4. The qr/⋯/ Operator and Regex Objects
Section 7.5. The Match Operator
Section 7.6. Fun with Perl Enhancements
Section 7.7. Perl Efficiency Issues
Section 7.8. Regex Compilation, the /o Modifier, qr/⋯/, and Efficiency
Section 7.9. Final Comments
Chapter 8. Java
Section 8.1. Java's Regex Flavor
Section 8.2. Using java.util.regex
Section 8.3. The Pattern.compile() Factory
Section 8.4. The Matcher Object
Section 8.5. Other Matcher Methods
Section 8.6. Other Pattern Methods
Section 8.7. Pattern's split Method, with Two Arguments
Section 8.8. Additional Examples
Section 8.9. Validating HTML with Multiple Patterns Per Matcher
Section 8.10. Java Version Differences
Chapter 9. .NET
Section 9.1. .NET's Regex Flavor
Section 9.2. Using .NET Regular Expressions
Section 9.3. Core Object Details
Section 9.4. Static "Convenience" Functions
Section 9.5. Support Functions
Section 9.6. Advanced .NET
Chapter 10. PHP
Section 10.1. PHP's Regex Flavor
Section 10.2. The Preg Function Interface
Section 10.3. The Preg Functions
Section 10.4. "Missing" Preg Functions
Section 10.5. Recursive Expressions
Section 10.6. PHP Efficiency Issues
Section 10.7. Extended Examples
About the Author
Colophon
Index
