Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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multiple places in the book | Do you plan to provide updates as some of web pages changed significantly. E.g. RegExr do not implement DOTALL option. |
Mike Mettler | May 26, 2020 | |
Printed | Page 1 sample line of code |
Erratum for "Introducing Regular Expressions", Fitzgerald, 2012 |
Henry P. Day, Jr. | Dec 03, 2019 |
Page 8 top |
Regular expression: |
Anonymous | Sep 01, 2012 | |
Printed | Page 8 Regex sample in first paragraph, as already submitted, but not confirmed at 2012-09-01 |
The given regex pattern does not match all strings as described in the first sentence of the page "Finally, here is...". The original regex is this: |
Anonymous | Mar 04, 2013 |
Printed | Page 15 1st line |
Unable to download, |
Anonymous | Apr 02, 2018 |
Page 34 hapter "Quoting a Group..... |
I found \Q\E not working nor in most specifications of regex. Is it limited e.g. to Perl implementation only? |
Mike Mettler | May 26, 2020 | |
Printed | Page 36 Displayed sed command |
The sed command output should be <title>Rime</title> instead of <title>The Rime of the Acyent Mariner (1798)</title> if the reader were to type out the command. The title "The Rime of the Acyent Mariner (1798)" is found inside the file top.sed which is inconsistent with the sed command diaplayed. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2018 |
Printed | Page 37 Displayed Perl command |
Same mistake as the previous submitted displayed sed command erratum -- inconsistent displayed command with the command found in top.pl file. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2018 |
Printed | Page 76 Table 7-2 |
The quantifier + should be same as {1, } as shown on page 75 rather than {1, 0} as shown in the table entry. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2018 |