Version 18 of BOOK Mastering Regular Expressions

Updated 2008-02-28 19:59:37 by andy

Author: Jeffrey E. F. Friedl

WWW book information:

More book information: http://enterprise.ic.gc.ca/~jfriedl/regex/ (found broken, 28 Feb 2008)

Author's Web site: http://regex.info/

This book explains regular expressions in general, and then covers a number of different tools explaining

AMG: Explaining what?


The second edition praises Tcl's regular expression engine: Henry's Tcl regex engine is an important step forward.

Also, in Chapter 6: Crafting an Efficient Expression, Friedl says: Most of what this chapter talks about simply does not apply to Tcl. And, as the sidebar explains, Henry Spencer's Tcl regex is a hybrid DFA/NFA engine and it doesn't need most of the optimizations described in the

AMG: Described in the what? This page has some unfinished