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Regular Expressions Cookbook, 2nd Edition
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Regular Expressions Cookbook, 2nd Edition

by Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
609 pages
19h 16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Regular Expressions Defined

In the context of this book, a regular expression is a specific kind of text pattern that you can use with many modern applications and programming languages. You can use them to verify whether input fits into the text pattern, to find text that matches the pattern within a larger body of text, to replace text matching the pattern with other text or rearranged bits of the matched text, to split a block of text into a list of subtexts, and to shoot yourself in the foot. This book helps you understand exactly what you’re doing and avoid disaster.

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