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
Chapter 1: Introduction to Regular Expressions
Chapter 2: Regular Expression Tools and an Approach
to Using Them
Chapter 3: Simple Regular Expressions
Chapter 4: Metacharacters and Modifers
Chapter 5: Character Classes
Chapter 6: String, Line, and word Boundaries
Chapter 7: Parentheses in Regular Expressions
Chapter 8: Lookahead and Lookbehind
Chapter 9: Sensitivity and Specificity of Regular Expressions
Chapter 10: Documenting and Debugging Regular Expressions
Etc.