Regex Quick Syntax Reference Understanding and Using Regular Expressions /

• Main Author: Nagy, Zsolt (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Computer programming.; Software engineering.; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters.; Programming Techniques.; Software Engineering.; Web Development.

This quick guide to regular expressions is a condensed code and syntax reference for an important programming technique. Using JavaScript and Perl 6 code, it demonstrates regex syntax in a well-organized format that can be used as a handy reference. The Regex Quick Syntax Reference features short, f...

Table of Contents:

• 1. An Introduction to Regular Expressions
• 2. Regex Syntax 101
• 3. Executing Regular Expressions
• 4. Visualizing Regex Execution using Finite State Machines
• 5. Repeat modifiers
• 6. Character Sets and Character Classes
• 7. Substring Extraction from Regular Expressions
• 8. Lookahead and Lookbehind
• 9. Maintaining Regular Expressions
• 10. Optimizing regular expressions
• 11. Parsing HTML Code and URL Query Strings with Regular Expressions
• Afterword: This is not the end, but the beginning.