Graham, a very good tutorial and reference has always been "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126 http://regex.info/
This book explains how to use regular expressions and it also covers the different styles of regular expressions. As far as I remember the PCRE implementation of regular expressions covers the Perl5 regex style so any decent introduction into Perl5-style regular expressions will do it as well, for example: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html (Reference Manual) http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrequick.html (Quick Intro) http://perldoc.perl.org/perlretut.html (Longer Intro) Regards, Florian Graham Samuel wrote: > The RunRev docs yield the explanation and definition of regular > expressions, used for example in the matchText function, to the > following link: > > <http://www.pcre.org/man.txt> > > > while doubtless definitive, this amounts to an academic thesis of many > many pages, and of little practical use to folks not brought up on > Unix, such as myself, who don't have quite a few hours to spare. > > Of course there is no shortage of other texts on regex to be found on > Google, but can anyone suggest a concise primer that will help me > parse ascii strings without too many tears? If there is one, maybe > it's time to suggest that RunRev mention it in the documentation. > > TIA > > Graham > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
