Comments on: Regular Expressions as an end-user programming tool? http://blog.gobansaor.com/2008/07/01/regular-expressions-as-an-end-user-programming-tool/ A country datasmith. Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:04:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: SAX and Bugs and XBRooL « Gobán Saor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2008/07/01/regular-expressions-as-an-end-user-programming-tool/#comment-5927 SAX and Bugs and XBRooL « Gobán Saor Thu, 06 May 2010 12:26:40 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/?p=382#comment-5927 [...] tended to go down the brute force and ignorance approach of hand coded File I/O combined with regular expressions to efficiently parse out the data [...] [...] tended to go down the brute force and ignorance approach of hand coded File I/O combined with regular expressions to efficiently parse out the data [...]

]]> By: gobansaor http://blog.gobansaor.com/2008/07/01/regular-expressions-as-an-end-user-programming-tool/#comment-4658 gobansaor Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:27:32 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/?p=382#comment-4658 @JP I learned "on the job" (mainly from using AWK and Perl) but I'd guess any decent book on Perl would be a good place to start. There are however lots of Regex 101 sites on the net, for example... http://www.icewarp.com/support/online_manual/203030104.htm (very simple introduction) http://www.regular-expressions.info/ (a bit more info) http://www.editgrid.com/user/ken/REGEX_tutorial (regex in a spreadsheet!) to .. http://regexp.resource.googlepages.com/analyzer.html or http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/ ...if you wish to see a visual analysis of your regular expressions. Tom @JP

I learned “on the job” (mainly from using AWK and Perl) but I’d guess any decent book on Perl would be a good place to start. There are however lots of Regex 101 sites on the net, for example…

http://www.icewarp.com/support/online_manual/203030104.htm (very simple introduction)

http://www.regular-expressions.info/ (a bit more info)

http://www.editgrid.com/user/ken/REGEX_tutorial (regex in a spreadsheet!)

to ..
http://regexp.resource.googlepages.com/analyzer.html
or
http://osteele.com/tools/reanimator/
…if you wish to see a visual analysis of your regular expressions.

Tom

]]> By: JP http://blog.gobansaor.com/2008/07/01/regular-expressions-as-an-end-user-programming-tool/#comment-4657 JP Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:32:49 +0000 http://gobansaor.wordpress.com/?p=382#comment-4657 Can you recommend any books for someone looking to break into learning regex? Thx, JP Can you recommend any books for someone looking to break into learning regex?

Thx,
JP

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