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David Golden
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October 27, 2010 07:01
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Re: Recommendation for expert book about regular expressions?
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Yes.  You will not find a better book on regular expressions.  It is the bibie.

Third edition apparently adds PHP coverage and updates Java commentary as well.

-- David


2010/10/27 ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska@gmail.com>:
> Does it cover the POSIX shell and egrep?
>
> Olga
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:48 PM, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:43:21 +0200, ольга крыжановская
>> <olga.kryzhanovska@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Amazon.com has a few books about regular expressions. Has any one a
>>> good recommendation which of these books are 'expert books' on the
>>> topic? The book *must* not be perl centric but cover perl and other
>>> languages like the POSIX shell, grep, egrep, regex() and JAVA.
>>
>> Easy answer:
>>
>>  Mastering Regular Expressions 2nd Edition
>>  O'Reilly
>>  Jeffrey E.F.Friedl
>>  ISBN 0-596-00289-0
>>
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