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 The Only Book You Will Need
This book is fantastic. Given the complex nature of regular expressions, the author explains the material in an easy-to-understand and clear manner. The read was never dry or boring, like might be expected with such a topic. It covers the topic completely - you will not need to buy another book to learn more. This is THE book to get if you want to learn regular expressions.
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br /I have read many computer books, and this one ranks in the top 2!
 Very good book
Das ist sehr gutes Buch und hilft mir zu verstehen, die grundlegenden "regulären Ausdrücken", dass man versuchen mit vielen verschiedenen Sprache Paradigma.
Great book, but little Ruby
This book is great if you want to learn about what you can do with regex, how they work, how you can improve them (efficiency accuracy) and what kind of pitfalls there are.
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br /My only gripe is about the Ruby reference on the cover. In the top right corner it says: "For Perl, PHP, Java, .NET, Ruby and more!" Perl, Java, .NET and PHP each get their own chapters (together 200 pages). Ruby, however, only participates in feature comparisons and benchmarks. If I had checked the ToC I would've known this, so I won't hold it against the book that much.
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br /The Ruby thing is a bummer, but since the book is great, it will get all five stars.
Overall good book with some quirks
The book is robust and goes into alot detail. I liked the comparing and contrasting between the various RegEx implementations. I had a difficult time digesting some of the detail. In particular, the analogies confused me and I felt the author went overboard with them. Many times, I had to backtrack to understand what was being discussed. However, regular expressions is a complex topic and the author did a good job easing into the concepts. An additional plus was with inline page citation - this helped to find the page corresponding to the topic being discussed.
br /I would have liked shorter chapters with chapter summaries and more diagrams in place of analogies. Ultimately, Mastering Regular Expressions is a good book referencing a complex topic.
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Best material I have seen on regular expressions
I went through several books and online tutorials and never found anything that did a good comprehensive job of explaining regular expressions. This book does. If you are having trouble "getting it", I highly encourage reading this book. You will be extremely enlightened even after the first few chapters.
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