Introducing Regular Expressions

Preface

1. What Is a Regular Expression?
-Getting Started with Regexpal
-Matching a North American Phone Number
-Matching Digits with a Character Class
-Using a Character Shorthand
-Matching Any Character
-Capturing Groups and Back References
-Using Quantifiers
-Quoting Literals
-A Sample of Applications
-What You Learned in Chapter 1
-Technical Notes

2. Simple Pattern Matching
-Matching String Literals
-Matching Digits
-Matching Non-Digits
-Matching Word and Non-Word Characters
-Matching Whitespace
-Matching Any Character, Once Again
-Marking Up the Text
-What You Learned in Chapter 2
-Technical Notes

3. Boundaries
-The Beginning and End of a Line
-Word and Non-word Boundaries
-Other Anchors
-Quoting a Group of Characters as Literals
-Adding Tags
-What You Learned in Chapter 3
-Technical Notes

4. Alternation, Groups, and Backreferences
-Alternation
-Subpatterns
-Capturing Groups and Backreferences
-Non-Capturing Groups
-What You Learned in Chapter 4
-Technical Notes

5. Character Classes
-Negated Character Classes
-Union and Difference
-POSIX Character Classes
-What You Learned in Chapter 5
-Technical Notes

6. Matching Unicode and Other Characters
-Matching a Unicode Character
-Matching Characters with Octal Numbers
-Matching Unicode Character Properties
-Matching Control Characters
-What You Learned in Chapter 6
-Technical Notes

7. Quantifiers
-Greedy, Lazy, and Possessive
-Matching with *, +, and ?
-Matching a Specific Number of Times
-Lazy Quantifiers
-Possessive Quantifiers
-What You Learned in Chapter 7
-Technical Notes

8. Lookarounds
-Positive Lookaheads
-Negative Lookaheads
-Positive Lookbehinds
-Negative Lookbehinds
-What You Learned in Chapter 8
-Technical Notes

9. Marking Up a Document with HTML
-Matching Tags
-Transforming Plain Text with sed
-Appending Tags
-Transforming Plain Text with Perl
-What You Learned in Chapter 9
-Technical Notes

10. The End of the Beginning
-Learning More
-Notable Tools, Implementations, and Libraries
-Matching a North American Phone Number
-Matching an Email Address
-What You Learned in Chapter 10

Appendix: Regular Expression Reference

Regular Expression Glossary

Index