"Bill Campbell" <b...@celestial.net> wrote
There is information on regular expressions in any book on python,
perl,
and other scripting languages. O'Reilly has a book ``Mastering
Regular
Expressions'' which is probably pretty good, but I have never read
it.
It is pretty much the definitive reference on regex.
However I read somewhere recently that O'Reilly are bringing out
a new tutorial style book on regex specifically for Python.
No more info but it might be worth visiting the ora.com website to
see whats on offer.
<PersonalOpinion>
OTOH I don't find I use regex all that often. Usually I can find
another
(better?() way. regex are powerful tools and invaluable when you
need them but if you don't *need* them then they can be deceptively
difficult to get right! Its always worth trying to live without in the
first
instance. If that doesn't work out then at least you know why you
need the regex!
</PersonalOpinion>
Alan G.
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