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Summary: Great book, I'm finally understanding regex!
Review: I got this book 2 days ago. It is great. I'm only to chapter 3 but it is making everything clear to me finally!Also, the appendix with the real world regex's is a great time saver. I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: Great book, I'm finally understanding regex!
Review: I got this book 2 days ago. It is great. I'm only to chapter 3 but it is making everything clear to me finally! Also, the appendix with the real world regex's is a great time saver. I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: A Great Refresher or Starter
Review: If you haven't used regular expressions in a while and need a quick refresher or you're just starting out then buy this book! It's quick and easy to read. Once you're done with this book then you'll be immediately productive for the task at hand. You'll even be unintimidated by those higher level books. This may be a small inexpensive book but it offers so much and is worth more than you'll pay. Ben Forta writes this book in a manner where his examples can be used by many programming languages. He discusses the nuances of each language and even provides a link to a user friendly regular expression tester for each language which can save you a lot of time.
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Summary: It does what it says
Review: It was is good for me, but great for explaining regular expressions to our customers. It reads easilly enough that we can allow end users to use Reg Exps in settings; minimizing how much monkey code we had to write to allow end users to search for patterns in text (their barcodes).
However, one of the credit card algorithms (Discover I think) does need to be updated to accomodate a new series of numbers. So verify the CC patterns before you use it in your ecommerce exception handling code, you could P.O. a potential customer...
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Summary: Concise book on Regular Expressions
Review: Pop open this book and about 2 hours later you'll have regular expressions down. At least, I did! A very helpful chapter on parsing HTML solved an immediate problem I had. And I find all the examples I tried works with Jython, the Python scripting language implemented in Java, that I use in TestMaker, my open-source framework for testing Web-enabled applications for scalability, functionality, and performance. -Frank Cohen, PushToTest
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Summary: Quick and concise explanation of regex
Review: Regular expressions come up in many popular editors, search engines,and parsers. Knowing regular expressions can make your favorite tool even more of a favorite. Knowing them as a programmer can also make you a more productive programmer. Instead of writing your own parser, simply use a regular expression with your favorite programming language such as PERL, PHP, Java, Python, etc. This book is a very handy guide to get you up and running quickly
with regular expressions. It's not comprehensive but it's likely to tell you just what you need to know 90% of the time. It quickly, concisely covers the basics: pattern matching for single, multiple, or sets of characters, repeats, certain types of characters such as digits, the nth occurrence, and nesting. The book has examples of everything it covers with a thoughtful analysis. As a surprise bonus, this book comes with two appendices. It tells you how to use regular expressions in popular tools and languages such as grep, MySQL, and Java. It also gives the pattern matches for common items such as zip codes, phone numbers, IP addresses, e-mails, comments, and credit card numbers. I recommend this book to anyone who ever needs to find a string quickly out of a bunch of text.
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Summary: Good Things Come in Small Packages
Review: Regular Expressions is a mechanism for working with strings and text. It's a powerful language for different kinds of matching within the text. For example to match e-mail address one could use the following RegEx: (\w+\.)*\w+@(\w+\.)+[A-Za-z]+
For a person not familiar with Regular Expressions it probably looks complicated. This book educates how to build regular expressions like that and other kinds, and it does it very well.
The book quickly explains fundamentals, and starts teaching Regular Expressions from the easiest examples, building up to more advanced topics gradually. The chapters are structured as lessons that allow developers to get up to speed with Regular Expressions quickly, at the same time the book doubles as a handy reference.
Advancement of .NET technology, which includes built in support for Regular Expressions, opens up new possibilities for programming with languages that previously had no Regular Expressions support, or such support had to be obtained through third party libraries, often limited. That's why Regular Expressions are as popular as ever, and this book does a great job brining developers up to speed with this exciting and time saving tool.
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Summary: Makes the power of RegExp accessible to everybody
Review: This book finally fills a very important niche, since, before it, there wasn't any entry-level Regular Expression manual worth reading. Friedl's book from O'Reilly is excellent, but not suited for beginners. Ben Forta distilled the essential of the subject inside a compact, easy to follow book. Even seasoned programmers often consider the topic arcane, but the author brilliantly managed to cover it in a way that can be easily understood by everybody and still being relevant (avoiding the pitfalls so typical of "dummies" manuals). Every chapter revolves around a set of practical examples, evolving in a linear way, from the very basic up to a few more sophisticated techniques covered inside the last two chapters.
Forta covers Regular Expressions in a language and implementation agnostic way; the result is worth reading regardless of the language/platform you use. It's a small, handy manual that makes the power of Regular Expressions accessible to everybody. Heartily recommended!
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Summary: This book is *exactly* what I needed...
Review: This book is destined be the go-to guide for anyone who needs a tutorial on regex basics that start at Square 1. If you know nothing about regular expressions and want to get up to speed fast this is the book for you. Like the author's SQL guide, it is written in a concise, thorough fashion with baby-step-by-step examples and illustrations that will walk you through the very basic stuff, moving up in complexity as you go along. The book is organized in short lessons that build on one another, and are easy to handle even if you only have a few minutes to spare every day. And you'll find it easy to keep reading given the understandable, engaging writing style. This book makes what was a mystically difficult topic a joy to *finally* figure out.
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Summary: This book is *exactly* what I needed...
Review: This book is destined be the go-to guide for anyone who needs a tutorial on regex basics that start at Square 1. If you know nothing about regular expressions and want to get up to speed fast this is the book for you. Like the author's SQL guide, it is written in a concise, thorough fashion with baby-step-by-step examples and illustrations that will walk you through the very basic stuff, moving up in complexity as you go along. The book is organized in short lessons that build on one another, and are easy to handle even if you only have a few minutes to spare every day. And you'll find it easy to keep reading given the understandable, engaging writing style. This book makes what was a mystically difficult topic a joy to *finally* figure out.
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