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Jim On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 18:56:50 -0500, Terry Stockdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Overstock.com has it for $23.19 + 1.40 shipping. They've got a lot of > current edition computer technical books. On the books I've checked, they > beat Amazon by 10% or so. > > BTW, my favorite shopping source for books is: > http://www.bestbookdeal.com > > Terry > > > > At 03:48 PM 8/3/2004, you wrote: > >Hi John: > >I would recommend Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Fridl. It is > >published by O'Reilly. Maybe we car request a copy for the BRLUG Library > >and you can review it. > > > >This book is very diffucult to find for a cheap price. I looked and > >looked!! > > > >take care > > > >Alvaro ZUniga > > > >John Hebert wrote: > > > Adam, > > > > > > Here's a great one: > > > > > > http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html > > > > > > Lots more via google: > > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=regular+expression+tutorial > > > > > > John > > > > > > --- Adam Melancon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > What is the best place to learn about Regex. > > > > Is there a good site that takes you from the > > > > beginning all the way to > > > > advanced expressions? > > > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:01:46 -0500, James Kuhns > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Oops - explination wrong... > > > > > > > > > > Without the g it would return a scalar 1 if a > > > > match was found or false if > > > > > not, you would need to backreference $1 to get the > > > > found value. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > > > > Of James Kuhns > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:53 AM > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Subject: RE: [brlug-general] noob regex question > > > > > > > > > > Regex alone: /\{([^\}]*)\}/g > > > > > notice the g at the end - without it the regex > > > > would return a scalar with > > > > > text1 in it > > > > > Regex basically says: find a string that starts > > > > with { and ends with } but > > > > > does not have any }'s in the middle (avoids greedy > > > > matches - if you use .* > > > > > instead of [^\}]* you would get everything from > > > > the first { to the last }) > > > > > > > > > > Regex in action: > > > > > > > > > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > > > > > > > > > my $str = 'this is some {text1}. this is more > > > > {text2}. and yet some more > > > > > {text3}.'; > > > > > > > > > > my @results = $str =~ /\{([^\}]*)\}/g; > > > > > > > > > > # displays text3 (last match found) > > > > > print "$1\n"; > > > > > > > > > > # displays text1, text2 and text3 > > > > > foreach $result (@results) > > > > > { > > > > > print $result."\n"; > > > > > } > > > > > > > > > > James > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > > > > Of John Hebert > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:20 AM > > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > > Subject: [brlug-general] noob regex question > > > > > > > > > > Howdy, > > > > > > > > > > I have a bunch of text with multiple tokens in it > > > > demarcated by { and }. > > > > > > > > > > Sample text: > > > > > this is some {text1}. this is more {text2}. and > > > > yet some more {text3}. > > > > > blahdeblah. > > > > > > > > > > What would a regular expression to get these > > > > tokens out of the text look > > > > > like, in a Perl script, say? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > John > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > > New and Improved Yahoo! 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