By Jonathan Gennick, Peter Linsley
First Edition
September 2003
Pages: 64
Series: Pocket References
ISBN 10: 0-596-00601-2 |
ISBN 13: 9780596006013
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
Oracle Regular Expressions Pocket Reference is part tutorial and part quick-reference. It's suitable for those who have never used regular expressions before, as well as those who have experience with Perl and other languages supporting regular expressions. The book describes Oracle Database 10G's support for regular expressions, including globalization support and differences between Perl's syntax and the POSIX syntax supported by Oracle 10G. It also provides a comprehensive reference, including examples, to all supported regular expression operators, functions, and error messages.
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Oracle Regular Expressions Pocket Reference Review, September 29 2003
Oracle Regular Expressions
This book covers one of the most exciting features of Oralce 10G, i.e Regular Expressions. Till Oracle 10G, Oracle was supporting only LIKE predicate for pattern matching. This Book covers all 4 functions (REGEXP_INSTR, REGEXP_LIKE, REGEXP_REPLACE, REGEXP_SUBSTR) of Regular expression supported by Oracle. It is for both novice users who didn't use Regular expressions till now and for the users who used other languages like Perl, UNIX grep command etc.,
We can use this book as quick reference or regular expression tutorial also. It not only explains what oracle supports as far as Regular Expressions is concerned, it also covers the difference between Perl and Oracle.
Finally it covers a list of error messages you may encounter and explanation and how to resolve them. This book is almost like a complete reference for Regular expression (hope I should write this sentence after getting experience on Oracle 10G).
Srinivas.
Media reviews
"The book explains the use of the regular expressions very well with clearly written examples. For this book too, you can download a sample table with data to test the regular expressions yourself. I find regular expressions really powerful and one of the most underestimated/(used) features of the database. I used for example regular expressions to check for a valid email address in the registration page of the World Cup 2006 application."
-- Dmitri Gielis, Dmitri Gielis Blog
"[Consumers] will find the fine 'pocket references' produced by O'Reilly to be compact and affordable."
-- James Cox, The Computer Shelf: Midwest Book Review
