Download - The Bastards Book of Regular Expressions

Moving forward 167• Regular Expressions Cookbook³⁵ – You thought my book was long? This invaluable reference,written by the same folks behind regular-expressions.info, is 612 pages.• Learn Regular Expressions the Hard Way³⁶ – another in the well-regarded series of learn-tocodebooks by Zed Shaw.Smashing Magazine’s Crucial Concepts Behind Advanced Regular Expressions³⁷ – A nice primer onregex technique and details.• “Do I have that right? And more importantly, what do you think?”³⁸ – this is one of the mostcited Stack Overflow questions ever because it so perfectly embodies the conflict between thepromise of regexes and cold hard reality. The top-responder’s ranting will increasingly makesense as you continue to use regexes for everything.• Putting regular expressions to work in Word³⁹ – it’s not quite true that you can’t do regularexpressions in Word. Word does have some wildcard functionality; however, its syntax islimited and is completely foreign to the syntax used in every other major language.³⁵http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449319432/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1449319432&linkCode=as2&tag=danwincom-20³⁶http://regex.learncodethehardway.org/³⁷http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/06/introduction-to-advanced-regular-expressions/³⁸http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags³⁹http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/support/putting-regular-expressions-to-work-in-word-HA001087304.aspx