This book offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through each 10-minute lesson, you'll learn everything you need to start leveraging the incredible power of regular expressions and the regular expression language.

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions
Cautions help you avoid common Pitfalls
Notes explain additional concepts, and provide additional information

Enhance your Java, .NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and Perl applications with regular expression processing.

Learn how to...

• Read and understand regular expressions
• Use literal text and metacharacters to build powerful search patterns
• Take advantage of advanced regular expression features including lookahead and back references Perform powerful search and replace operations in all major professional editing tools
• Write JavaScript- validation rules to be used in your Web pages
• Perform powerful file searches using command-line tools like grep and egrep
• Filter MySQL data using regular expressions in SQL WHERE clauses