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Mastering Regular Expressions

ISBN: 0596528124
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 113

Authors: Jeffrey E.F. Friedl

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• Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition
• Table of Contents
• 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
• 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.
• Section 10.5. Recursive Expressions
• Section 10.6. PHP Efficiency Issues
• Section 10.7. Extended Examples
• About the Author
• Colophon
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