Author: [Jeffrey E. F. Friedl] WWW book information: * First edition: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex/ * Second edition: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/ * Third edition: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3/ 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 ---- !!!!!! %| [Category Book] |% !!!!!!