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You're reading from Java 9 Regular Expressions A hands-on guide to implement zero-length assertions, back-references, quantifiers, and many more

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787288706

Length 158 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Functional Programming

Author (1):

Anubhava Srivastava

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Regular Expressions

2. Understanding the Core Constructs of Java Regular Expressions FREE CHAPTER

3. Working with Groups, Capturing, and References

4. Regular Expression Programming Using Java String and Scanner APIs

5. Introduction to Java Regular Expression APIs - Pattern and Matcher Classes

6. Exploring Zero-Width Assertions, Lookarounds, and Atomic Groups

7. Understanding the Union, Intersection, and Subtraction of Character Classes

8. Regular Expression Pitfalls, Optimization, and Performance Improvements

Getting Started with Regular Expressions

In this chapter, you will be introduced to regular expressions (or regex in short). You will learn about some real-world problems that can be solved by using regular expressions and the basic building blocks of regular expressions.

We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:

Introduction to regular expressions
A brief history of regular expressions
The various flavors of regular expressions
What type of problems need regular expressions to solve
The basic rules of writing regular expressions
Standard regular expression meta characters
Basic regular expression examples

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Authors (1)

Anubhava Srivastava

Anubhava Srivastava has more than 22 years of professional experience in architecture, design, and software development. He specializes mainly in the J2EE technology stack, web technologies, CICD, test-driven development, and AWS cloud-based development. He is an active contributor to the Stack Overflow community. He currently stands in the top 35 users in terms of reputations out of the 7.5 million Stack Overflow users. He is passionate about regular expressions and is always willing to sharpen his regex skills further. He has answered close to 10,000 regex questions on Stack Overflow. He has authored and released a test-driven framework, called GenericFixture, for FitNesse as an open source software. You can follow him on Twitter at @anubhava.

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