Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers: A Problem-Solution Approach

by Nathan Good

Overview

Regular expressions are an essential part of programming, but they can be difficult to cope with. Enter Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers. This is the only book of its kind that presents material in a functional, concise manner. It contains over 100 of the most popular regular expressions, along with explanations of how to use each one. It also covers all of the major development languages, including JavaScript, VB, VB .NET, and C#.

Author Nathan A. Good teaches by example and provides concise syntax references as necessary throughout the book. You’re sure to find his examples accurate and relevant. This book is an ideal solutions guide for you to keep in a handy place for quick reference.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590594971
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	05/26/2005
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.52(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Nathan A. Good lives in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. He is a contractor with Alliance of Computer Professionals in Bloomington. When he isn't writing software, Nathan enjoys building PCs and servers, reading about and working with new technologies, and trying to get all his friends to make the move to open source software. When he's not at a computer (which he admits is not often), he spends time with his family, at his church, and at the movies.

Table of Contents

Words and Text.- URLs and Paths.- CSV and Tab-Delimited Files.- Formatting and Validating.- HTML and XML.- Source Code.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Mainstream Windows developers are discovering what Unix and Perl developers have long known: Regular expressions are immensely powerful. Nathan Good’s 100 recipes let you put them to work for you immediately, even as you gradually learn the underlying concepts and techniques. They’ll help you handle practically any string-related challenge, in whatever language you choose: ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, VBScript, even JavaScript.

Want to extract a path from a URL? Good presents the code and carefully explains how it works. How about converting a tab-delimited file to CSV (or vice versa)? Also here. Ditto for validating everything from Social Security numbers to IP addresses. There’s a full chapter on regex applications for HTML/XML; and 25 techniques for cleaning up source code and streamlining the programming process. If you haven’t realized how useful regular expressions can be, here’s all the proof you need. Bill Camarda, from the July 2005 Read Only

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