Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10

RegEx is supported in all major development environments (for use in editing and working with code) and will thus appeal to anyone using these tools. In addition, every JavaScript developer should be using RegEx, but most don't as it has never been taught to them properly before. Developers using ASP, C#, ColdFusion, Java JSP, PHP, Perl, Python, and more can (and should) be using RegEx, and so every one of them is a potential reader too. The reader of this book will learn how to: Match characters sets Match repeating characters (using minimums and maximums if needed) Match (or ignore) based on case Build sub-expressions Use all of the special characters Work with excape sequences Use POSIX classes to simplify complex expressions Use back-references Use look-behind operators Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutesis a tutorial book organized into a series of easy-to-follow 10-minute lessons. These well targeted lessons teach you in 10 minutes what other books might take hundreds of pages to cover. Instead of dwelling on syntax, terminology, and arcane examples and scenarios, this book takes a very hands-on approach to solving the needs of the majority of RegEx users who simply need to manipulate data.

Ben Forta is Macromedia Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist and has more than two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the popular Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes (in this same series), ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on JavaServer Pages, Windows development, mobile computing, and other topics. More than one-quarter million Ben Forta books have been printed in more than a dozen languages worldwide. He writes regular columns on Internet and application development topics and spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide. Ben welcomes your email at ben@forta.com and invites you to visit his Web site at http://www.forta.com/.

Introduction
Introducing Regular Expressions
Understanding the Need
How Regular Expressions Are Used
So What Exactly Is a Regular Expression? Using Regular Expressions
Before You Get Started
Summary
Matching-Single Characters
Matching Literal Text
Matching Any Characters
Matching Special Characters
Summary
Matching Sets of Characters
Matching One of Several Characters
Using Character Set Ranges
"Anything But" Matching
Summary
Using Metacharacters
Escaping Revisited
Matching Whitespace Characters
Matching Specific Character Types
Using POSIX Character Classes
Summary
Repeating Matches
How Many Matches? Using Intervals
Preventing Over Matching
Summary
Position Matching
Using Boundaries
Using Word Boundaries
Defining String Boundaries
Summary
Using Subexpressions
Understanding Subexpressions
Grouping with Subexpressions
Nesting Subexpressions
Summary
Using Backreferences
Understanding Backreferences
Matching with Backreferences
Performing Replace Operations
Summary
Looking Ahead and Behind
Introducing Lookaround
Looking Ahead
Looking Behind
Combining Lookahead and Lookbehind
Negating Lookaround
Summary
Embedding Conditions
Why Embed Conditions? Using Conditions
Summary
Regular Expressions in Popular Applications and Languages grep
JavaScript
Macromedia ColdFusion
Macromedia Dreamweaver
Macromedia HomeSite (and ColdFusion Studio)
Microsoft ASP
Microsoft ASP.NET
Microsoft C#
Microsoft .NET
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. MySQL. Perl. PHP. Sun Java
Regular Expression Solutions to Common Problems
North American Phone Numbers
U.S. ZIP Codes
Canadian Postal Codes
United Kingdom Postcodes
U.S. Social Security Numbers
IP Addresses
URLs
Complete URLs
Email Addresses
HTML Comments
JavaScript Comments
Credit Card Numbers
Summary
The Regular Expression Tester
Understanding the Regular Expression Tester Application
Obtaining a Copy of the Application
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