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Introducing Regular Expressions
Unraveling regular expressions, step-by-step
July 24, 2012,
Volume 173, Issue 4

"Introducing Regular Expressions: Unraveling Regular Expressions, Step-by-step" is a new title from O'Reilly by Michael Fitzgerald that walks readers, step-by-step, with the help of numerous examples, to demonstrate how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specific words, characters, and patterns. Regular expressions, O'Reilly's blurb explains, are an essential part of a programmer’s toolkit, available in various Unix utilities as well as programming languages such as Perl, Java, JavaScript, and C#. Fitzgerald's book will familiarize readers with the most commonly used syntax in regular expressions, providing an understanding of how using them will save considerable time.

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