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Learning Perl, 5th Edition
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Learning Perl, 5th Edition

by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, brian d foy
June 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
352 pages
11h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Regular Expressions

Yes, there’s even more about regular expressions than we mentioned. Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl (O’Reilly) is one of the best technical books we’ve ever read.[*] It’s half about regular expressions in general, and half about Perl’s regular expressions. It goes into great detail about how the regular expression engine works internally, and why one way of writing a pattern may be much more efficient than another. Anyone who is serious about Perl should read this book. Also see the perlre manpage (and its companion manpages perlretut and perlrequick in newer versions of Perl). And, there’s more about regular expressions in the Alpaca as well.

[*] And we’re not just saying that because it’s also published by O’Reilly. It’s really a great book.

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