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Mastering Regular Expressions - Table of Contents

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That's certainly a tall order! However, a real problem needs a real solution, and a<br />

real problem it is. I used such a tool on the text <strong>of</strong> this book and was surprised at<br />

the way numerous doubled-words had crept in. There are many programming<br />

languages one could use to solve the problem, but one with regular expression<br />

support can make the job substantially easier.<br />

<strong>Regular</strong> expressions are the key to powerful, flexible, and efficient text<br />

processing. <strong>Regular</strong> expressions themselves, with a general pattern notation<br />

almost like a mini programming language, allow you to describe and parse text.<br />

With additional support provided by the particular tool being used, regular<br />

expressions can add,

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