There’s been a number of questions about regular expressions in recent
days.
The Ruby U.'s Guide has a small script to highlight regular
expression patterns. I found it quite helpful for visualizing regex’s,
especially while learning them.
Jim [email protected] wrote:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/UsersGuide/rg/
i don’ get colors even with the ansi termianl over MacOS X…
Works here[1]. What is your $TERM set at?
[1] After changing:
str.gsub! re, “#{st}\&#{en}” to
str.gsub!(/#{re}/, “#{st}\&#{en}”) # gsub takes a string /or/
regular-expression
Daniel H. [email protected] wrote:
str.gsub!(/#{re}/, “#{st}\&#{en}”)
thanks, right now i get reverse video for match.
i’m sure my Terminal works with ansi colors because recently i’ve tried
xml-smart “xpath_visual.rb” with term-ansicolor-0.0.4.
see for example http://cjoint.com/data/bhvDrQHhrH.htm
Jim wrote:
The Ruby U.'s Guide has a small script to highlight regular
expression patterns. I found it quite helpful for visualizing regex’s,
especially while learning them.
There’s also a small tool (GUI) bundled with Ruby Development Tools for
Eclipse that does just that. Quite useful.
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:08:11PM +0900, Gene T. wrote:
The clearest explanation I recall seeing was . . . I think it was
chapter seven in Learning Perl (I have 2nd Ed.: later editions might
have it in a different chapter for all I know). Yes, I know, it’s Perl
and not Ruby – but that doesn’t mean it’s not useful knowledge.
–
Chad P. [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
print substr(“Just another Perl hacker”, 0, -2);
There is an excellent book from O’Reilly -
I’ve read it and it is by far and large the best regex tutorial
available.
“Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition”
By Jeffrey E. F. Friedl
Second Edition July 2002
ISBN: 0-596-00289-0
Full Description
Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text
and
data. They have spread like wildfire in recent years, now offered as
standard features in Perl, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using
the
.NET Framework), PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, MySQL, awk, Emacs, and many
other
popular tools and languages.
If you don’t use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book
a
whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already use them,
you’ll
appreciate this book’s unprecedented detail and breadth of coverage. If
you
think you know all you need to know about regular expressions, this book
is
a stunning eye-opener.
In spite their wide availability, flexibility, and unparalleled power,
regular expressions are frequently underutilized. Regular expressions
allow
you to code complex and subtle text processing that you never imagined
could
be automated. Regular expressions can save you time and aggravation.
They
can be used to craft elegant solutions to a wide range of problems.
A command of regular expressions is an invaluable skill. Yet what is
power
in the hands of an expert can be fraught with peril for the unwary.
Mastering Regular Expressions will help you navigate the minefield to
becoming an expert. Once you’ve mastered regular expressions, they’ll
become
an invaluable part of your toolkit. You will wonder how you ever got by
without them.
Mastering Regular Expressions, Second Edition has been thoroughly
updated to
include all the new features of Perl 5.8, as well as several other
languages, including Java, VB.NET, C#, Python, JavaScript, Tcl, and
Ruby.
Written in the lucid, entertaining tone that made a complex, dry topic
crystal-clear to thousands of programmers, and sprinkled with solutions
to
complex real-world problems, Mastering Regular Expressions offers a
wealth
information that you can put to immediate use.
Topics include:
A comparison of features among different versions of many languages and
tools
How the regular expression engine works
Optimization (major savings available here!)
Matching just what you want, but not what you don’t want
Sections and chapters on individual languages
If you don’t have access to the O’Reilly book, here are some regex
resources
found on digg.com.
http://www.crazygrrl.com/weav/reference.php3
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html
Vladimir A. wrote:
Eclipse that does just that. Quite useful.
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some other things that might help
http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/
http://samuelfullman.com/team/php/tools/regular_expression_tester_p2.php
but i think best is Friedl’s Oreilly regular expression book