Beginning Regular Expressions

Supported by all major databases, scripting languages, and programming languages, regular expressions are powerful "wild-card" text-processing tools used by programmers to find, validate, modify, or edit information Covering a wide range of languages and databases-including JavaScript, ASP.NET, and Access-this book will appeal to the many programmers put off by the Perl-Unix focus of existing regular expressions books Packed with easy-to-follow examples and exercises, the book helps regular expressions newcomers learn by doing

Andrew Watt is an independent consultant and experienced author with an interest and expertise in XML and Web technologies. He has written and coauthored more than 10 books on Web development and XML, including XPath Essentials and XML Schema Essentials. He has been programming since 1984, moving to Web development technologies in 1994. He’s a well-known voice in several influential online technical communities and is a frequent contributor to many Web development specifications.

PART I: REGULAR EXPRESSION FOUNDATIONS.

1. Introduction to Regular Expressions.

2. Regular Expressions Tools and an Approach to Using Them.

3. Simple Regular Expressions.

4. Metacharacters and Modifiers.

5. Character Classes.

6. Word and String Boundaries.

7. Parentheses in Regular Expressions.

8. Sensitivity and Specificity of Regular Expressions.

9. Lookahead and Lookbehind.

10. Documenting and Debugging Regular Expressions.

PART II: APPLYING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS.

11. Regular Expressions in Microsoft Word.

12. Regular Expressions in StarOffice / OpenOffice.org Writer.

13. Regular Expressions in Using Findstr.

14. Introduction to JavaScript and Regular Expressions.

15. JavaScript Form Validation.

16. Visual Basic.Net and Regular Expressions.

17. VBScript and Regular Expressions.

18. Introduction to Perl and Regular Expressions.

19. Perl Regular Expression Examples.

20. Introduction to Regular Expressions in PHP.

21. Data Validation Using PHP.

22. Java and Regular Expressions.

23. Java Regular Expression Examples.

24. Regular Expressions in Microsoft Access.

25. MySQL and Regular Expressions.

26. SQL Server 2000 and Regular Expressions.

27. W3C XML Schema and Regular Expressions.

28. C#.Net.

29. XSLT 2.0 Regular Expressions.

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Beginning Regular Expressions

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