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Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself)
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Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself) |
Author: Ben Forta
Published: 2004-03-05 |
List price: $16.99
Our price: $11.55
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 Excellent introduction to Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions are incredibly powerful text parsing tools. But as with almost everything, using the tools regularly is essential to maintaining and building proficiency. Of course, there are ways to work around that and this is one of them.
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br / Not only is the book an extremely good introduction to Regular Expressions and the Regular Expressions Language, but it is also very helpful as a very quick refresher course.
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br / Forta intends his book to be an introduction to Regular Expressions. In fact - and this shows you the nature of the man - Forta suggests another book from another publisher (Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions) to those who want more information.
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br / In ten chapters, Forta walks the reader through the basics of understanding what Regular Expressions are, how they can be used and how to use them.
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br / Overall, this is a great introduction to Regular Expressions, their user and how to forumulate them. Excellent for your first introduction or for refreshing the skills of the infrequent user.
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br /Jerry
 Perhaps I missed somthing...
As a beginner, every little bit helps and I am certainly glad that the "intelligents" such as Mr. Forta takes the time to address us who know so much less. Also, I really did enjoy both the "get to the point" and brevity of the book but, perhaps I missed something, because I was getting confused between the "TEXT" portion of his examples and the "RESULT" portions - they were always exactly the same! Once the "REGEX" portion was applied against the "TEXT", wasn't the "RESULT" portion supposed to show only what was filtered? This made the examples meaningless for me. Aside from that, the print quality wasn't there; it seemed that at some point it had become over-xeroxed at the office. Overall, at the very least, I believe the book to be a good primer. I hope to see Mr. Forta follow up somehow. Also, if you get this book, make sure to look up the 19 erratas on his website.
 Houston, we have a problem...
I don't know if every copy of the book is like this, but mine was printed so faintly that the highlighting of the examples was too faint to see. What this means is that the examples in the book (and there are a lot of them... that is the primary method of teaching in the book) are useless without the accompanying text. The accompanying text is quite good and thorough, but I wouldn't recommend this book at all unless you're sure they've fixed the problem at the printer.
Excellent regex primer!
After reading this clearly written little book you will have a good understanding of what regex expressions are all about as well as a serviceable command of syntax. Follow it up with Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions," which will be a breeze with Forta's crash course under your belt, and you will be well on your way to guru-dom.
Easy for Beginners
If you need to understand regular expressions that is explained in laymans terms, you will like this book. This book is perfect for beginners and gives you a good start in understanding how regex works. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for an easy way to learn regular expressions.
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