Mastering Regular Expressions: Understand Your Data and Be More Productive (Paperback, 3)

1: Introduction to Regular Expressions
Solving Real Problems
Regular Expressions as a Language
The Regular-Expression Frame of Mind
Egrep Metacharacters
Expanding the Foundation
Personal Glimpses

2: Extended Introductory Examples
About the Examples
Matching Text with Regular Expressions
Modifying Text with Regular Expressions

3: Overview of Regular Expression Features and Flavors
A Casual Stroll Across the Regex Landscape
Care and Handling of Regular Expressions
Strings, Character Encodings, and Modes
Common Matacharacters and Features
Guide to the Advanced Chapters

4: The Mechanics of Expression Processing
Start Your Engines!
Match Basics
Regex-directed Versus Text-Directed
Backtracking
More About Greedines and Backtracking
NFA, DFA, and POSIX
Summary

5: Practical Regex Techniques
Regex Balancing Act
A Few Short Examples
HTML-Related Examples
Extended Examples

6: Crafting an Efficient Expression
A Sobering Example
A Global View of Backtracking
Benchmarking
Common optimizations
Techniques for Faster Expressions
Unrolling the Loop
The Freeflowing Regex
In Summary: Think!

7: Perl
Regular Expressions as a Language Component
Perl's Regex Flavor
Regex-Related Perlisms
The qr/…/Operator and Regex Objects
The Match Operator
The Substitution Operator
The Split Operator
Fun with Perl Enhancements
Perl Efficiency Issues
Final Comments

8: Java
Judging a Regex Package
Object Models
Packages, Packages, Packages
Sun's Regex Package
A Quick Look at Jakarta-ORO

9: .NET
.Net's Regex Flavor
Using .NET Regular Expressions
Core Object Details
Static \'Convenience\' Functions
Support Functions
Advanced .NET