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Beginning Regular Expressions

  • Supported by all major databases, scripting languages, and programming languages, regular expressions are powerful "wild-card" text-processing tools used by programmers to find, validate, modify, or edit information
  • Covering a wide range of languages and databases-including JavaScript, ASP.NET, and Access-this book will appeal to the many programmers put off by the Perl-Unix focus of existing regular expressions books
  • Packed with easy-to-follow examples and exercises, the book helps regular expressions newcomers learn by doing

Biography

Andrew Watt is an independent consultant and experienced author with an interest and expertise in XML and Web technologies. He has written and coauthored more than 10 books on Web development and XML, including XPath Essentials and XML Schema Essentials. He has been programming since 1984, moving to Web development technologies in 1994. He’s a well-known voice in several influential online technical communities and is a frequent contributor to many Web development specifications.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Regular Expressions.

Chapter 2: Regular Expression Tools and an Approach to Using Them.

Chapter 3: Simple Regular Expressions.

Chapter 4: Metacharacters and Modifiers.

Chapter 5: Character Classes.

Chapter 6: String, Line, and Word Boundaries.

Chapter 7: Parentheses in Regular Expressions.

Chapter 8: Lookahead and Lookbehind.

Chapter 9: Sensitivity and Specificity of Regular Expressions.

Chapter 10: Documenting and Debugging Regular Expressions.

Chapter 11: Regular Expressions in Microsoft Word.

Chapter 12: Regular Expressions in StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Writer.

Chapter 13: Regular Expressions Using findstr.

Chapter 14: PowerGREP.

Chapter 15: Wildcards in Microsoft Excel.

Chapter 16: Regular Expression Functionality in SQL Server 2000.

Chapter 17: Using Regular Expressions with MySQL.

Chapter 18: Regular Expressions and Microsoft Access.

Chapter 19: Regular Expressions in JScript and JavaScript.

Chapter 20: Regular Expressions and VBScript.

Chapter 21: Visual Basic .NET and Regular Expressions.

Chapter 22: C# and Regular Expressions.

Chapter 23: PHP and Regular Expressions.

Chapter 24: Regular Expressions in W3C XML Schema.

Chapter 25: Regular Expressions in Java.

Chapter 26: Regular Expressions in Perl.

Appendix A: Exercise Answers.

Index.

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