regexp manuals/tutorials/books for beginners ?

Sat Mar 27 14:43:42 UTC 2004

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 08:00:47AM -0500, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> William O'Higgins wrote:
> >
> >I would suggest installing perl-doc, and then pointing her at "man
> >perlrequick" and "man perlretut".
> 
> Perl's REs have some uncommon extensions. Maybe best not to learn those, 
> then have to find out which ones don't work.

Actually given how many things are starting to use libpcre (perl
compatible regular expressions library), they are probably a good thing
to learn, since they can do things other regex systems just can't deal
with.

Lennart Sorensen
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