Introducing Regular Expressions: Unraveling Regular Expressions, Step-by-Step

This book is a comprehensive guide for programmers new to regular expressions, providing step-by-step instructions with numerous examples to help you learn the fundamentals of matching, extracting, and transforming text.

You'll discover how to use regular expressions in various programming languages such as Perl, Java, JavaScript, and C#, and how they can save you considerable time in your development work.

With this book, you'll be familiar with the most commonly used syntax in regular expressions and understand how to apply simple methods for finding patterns in text, including digits, letters, Unicode characters, and string literals.

You'll also learn about zero-width assertions and lookarounds, as well as how to use groups, backreferences, character classes, and quantifiers.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to mark up plain text with HTML5 using regular expressions.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced programmer looking to expand your skills, this book is the perfect resource for anyone interested in learning regular expressions.