Thanks Florian - the Quick Intro is the one for me - short and free!
It approximates to an idiot's guide, although a text of the same
length that was written with RunRev in mind would of course be ideal.
The book (quite expensive) appears to be much more of a in-depth
study, and the review which praises its completeness and readability
also suggests that it would take a long time to absorb, which is
precisely what I'm trying to avoid.
It is odd in this day and age to have to deal with what amounts to a
language (for an automaton) with no debugging features at all! Or
perhaps I've got even that bit wrong.
Anyway I am now launched on yet another journey of discovery - thanks
again.
Graham
On 28 Sep 2009, at 16:59:08 +0200, Florian von Walter
<[email protected]> wrote:
Graham,
a very good tutorial and reference has always been "Mastering Regular
Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126
http://regex.info/
This book explains how to use regular expressions and it also covers
the
different styles of regular expressions.
As far as I remember the PCRE implementation of regular expressions
covers the Perl5 regex style so any decent introduction into Perl5-
style
regular expressions will do it as well, for example:
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html (Reference Manual)
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrequick.html (Quick Intro)
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html (Longer Intro)
Regards, Florian
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