Chapter 10. REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
This chapter covers the following topics:
What regular expressions are and why they are useful
The anatomy of regular expressions
How to use regular expressions in ActionScript 3.0
Useful regular expressions
Resources for more information about regular expressions
In this chapter, you'll spend some time looking at regular expressions, a brand-new feature introduced into ActionScript 3.0 that has helped make it a proper, grown-up programming language.
Regular expressions have often been considered something of a dark art, reserved for propeller-heads who eat Perl scripts for breakfast and go back for seconds. Seeing regular expressions in the wild, you would be forgiven for writing them off as incomprehensible gobbledygook. ...
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