On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:38:10AM +0000, Mark Fowler wrote: > Nicholas Clarke wrote: > > > Just skip the chapter on regular expressions, and use a good regular > > expression tutorial instead. > > Just out of interest, does the book mention the 'perlrequick' > documentation? That's as good as place as anyone to start who's learning > regexs.
No. The regexp chapter suggests perlre, perlop and perldebguts, the latter because "debugging information concerning the internals of Perl. This document contains a reference on all the codes output by the regular expression debugger" > (yes, it's my book - as I told you, I hadn't even had time to open it yet > ;-) ) Currently hard as it's sitting on my lap. :-) > > This book does one thing, and does it well. However I suspect that > > this means that you will read it about twice, by which time it will give you > > the confidence and ability to find everything you need answered online, from > > which point it will remain on your bookshelf.</p> > > Ah, but does that make it any less useful...probably not. I have many > books these days that I hardly ever look in, but were great as a jumpstart > guide. No, I think doesn't affect how useful it is. It's more a warning - if you consider a book that doesn't act as ongoing reference as not the best value for money, then this probably isn't for you. (I'm being careful with the double negative - it is value for money if time is money and you need to jumpstart onto perl fast) Nicholas Clark -- INTERCAL better than perl? http://www.perl.org/advocacy/spoofathon/
