Book description
Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are now standard features in a wide range of languages and popular tools, including Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, and MySQL. If you don't use regular expressions…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Mastering Regular Expressions as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Regular expressions are the cornerstone of command line wizardry.
They are used in pretty much all command-line tools, and all programming languages.
If you read this book, you'll have a deep understanding of what's going on, and the knowledge to go from hand-waving and guessing your way through regular expression writing to the mastery the book promises.
From Ian's list on The best books to become a Linux command line ninja.
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