Re: Learning regular expressions
On 18/3/03 10:21, "Mark Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>
>> You can't go wrong with Jeffrey Friedl's `Mastering Regular Expressions'
>> (O'Reilly: 1-56592-257-3).
>
> You'd be better off with the 2nd Edition.
[...]
Hey, I've bought thirty-two O'Reilly books as it is ;-)
Regards,
Phil.
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Re: Learning regular expressions
On 13/3/03 17:05, "Adam C Auden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Peter Sergeant wrote: > >> This seems to be a recurring theme - regular expressions are hard. This >> is not my experience. After QBasic, Perl was the first language I >> learned, and regular expressions were a topic I found very easy (and >> there were plenty of topics I found hard, I'm sure). I wonder why it is >> some people find regexes such a mind-twister. > > Not sure you can give a complete answer to this one, however I for one > find regular expressions tricky due to the lack of decent docs available > for them - particularly lack of examples to work from. > > Now I know I should just go and buy a book, however if anyone has any > links to sites which they have found of use it would be much appreciated. [...] You can't go wrong with Jeffrey Friedl's `Mastering Regular Expressions' (O'Reilly: 1-56592-257-3). Great read, too. Regards, Phil. -- "Arms my only ornament - my only rest, the fight." -- Cervantes, Don Quixote.
Re: newbie cgi/db books
On 6/2/03 14:57, "Peter Pimley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm coming to the end of a project where I have been maintaining a > spreadsheet when what I really wanted to use was a database (gah!). > > When my current project is finished, I shall be writing some sort of cgi > based frontend to the database. It's the sort of thing you guys could > probably do with your eyes closed, but I've never actually had to do this > before! I'm familiar with perl syntax, as well as unix and apache > administration. [...] > Can anyone recommend any good books on this sort of thing? I'll probably > pick up whatever O'Reilly have, but are there any others I should be aware > of? Amazon links appreciated :) You could do a lot worse than try Paul DuBois's `MySQL and Perl for the Web' (New Riders: 0-7357-1054-6). This, of course, assumes you'll be using MySQL ;-) Highly recommended. Regards, Phil. -- "Arms my only ornament - my only rest, the fight." -- Cervantes, Don Quixote.
