regexp manuals/tutorials/books for beginners ?

[Henry Spencer]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   She can navigate her way around the unix command line sufficient for
> her needs, and she's reasonably bright with a university degree, etc.
> What training materials are there for a beginner to learn regexps?

If you want coverage that's both complete and fairly gentle, it's hard to
beat Jeff Friedl's book "Mastering Regular Expressions" (from O'Reilly,
of course; I think the second edition is the current one).  The U of T
computer store probably has it.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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