Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes Paperback – 18 March 2004

Usually I never like titles like "learn something in 10 minutes" But this is an exception. The contents are excellent for refreshing and very quick reference regular expressions, its well written, and too easy to understand.

Let's state it first, as the author points out, this is not an in depth review of the mechanisms that go on behind the scenes, this will get you on top of 99% of what you'll ever find out there.This book covers expressions extensively and more than any tutorial you'll find on the internet, it's just more than enough if you don't mind the how it does that, you just want the job done. For every kind of expression there are three pages with examples and explanation. I advice fiddling with Regexr during the process.Invaluable.I usually don't leave many reviews there are plenty of resources for whatever project you are up to, but delivering this much in the little effort of few hours is outstanding.

Para quem é iniciante, o texto é bem objetivo e claro. O livro serve também como referência para os já iniciados.

A basic but exhaustive lesson on regular expressions. Well developed and explained, useful as daily guide to use. Only limited at time of aplying to diverse languages. But at this time, you have the required to get directions on your own.

Ce livre est d'après moi la meilleure façon d'apprendre à utiliser les expressions régulières. Il est facile à comprendre et donne beaucoup d'exemple.

Regular Expressions are incredibly powerful text parsing tools. But as with almost everything, using the tools regularly is essential to maintaining and building proficiency. Of course, there are ways to work around that and this is one of them. Not only is the book an extremely good introduction to Regular Expressions and the Regular Expressions Language, but it is also very helpful as a very quick refresher course. Forta intends his book to be an introduction to Regular Expressions. In fact - and this shows you the nature of the man - Forta suggests another book from another publisher (Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions) to those who want more information. In ten chapters, Forta walks the reader through the basics of understanding what Regular Expressions are, how they can be used and how to use them. Overall, this is a great introduction to Regular Expressions, their user and how to forumulate them. Excellent for your first introduction or for refreshing the skills of the infrequent user.Jerry