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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    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