Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Pollywog wrote:
>
> > Is the above an example of a "regular expression"?
>
> No. It is an Exim expanded string.
>
> > I believe O'Reilly has
> > a book about the subject and I would like to learn to write them.
>
> ISBN 1-56592-257 "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl.
>
> It is a good book. I do not know if he plans to update it for the latest
> features of Perl 5.005.
>
> Or, you could do the job cheaper, and just read section called "Regular
> Expression Details" in the man page in src/pcre/pcre.3 in your Exim
> source tree. :-)
If you want a "Readers Digest" really brief summary of Regular
Expressions try:
http://sunsite.org.uk/packages/mirror/mirror.html#Regular Expressions
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