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Mastering Regular Expressions: The Mechanics of Expression Processing
Overview This paper continues with that analogy, talking about the all-important regular-expression engine, and how it goes about its work. Why would one care how it works? As one sees, there are several types of regex engines, and the type most commonly used - the type used by Perl, Tcl, Python, the .NET languages, Ruby, PHP, all Java packages seen, and more - works in such a way that how one crafts the expression can influence whether it can match a particular string, where in the string it matches, and how quickly it finds the match or reports the failure.
| Publisher | O'Reilly Media | File Format | |
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| Date Published | August 2006 | Downloads | 1 |
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