Comments about O'Reilly Media Mastering Regular Expressions:

I was able to use the author's examples in Visual Basic Script, Visual Basic, and Visual Basic for Applications in the Windows environment using VBscript's regular expressions. I've run some Excel VBA applications to search thousands of Word documents for multiple phrases. I highly recommend this book.

Comments about O'Reilly Media Mastering Regular Expressions:

Well authored and well edited. The 2 years of effort the author says he gave

this book really shows itself. He sells you on the benefit of "hanging in" there through the book, as well as the world of programming power which will be available to you when you indeed "master" regular expressions. Mr. Friedl is sensitive to the various levels of programming expertise his readers will come to the book with. Examples given are strenuously explained--something a budding programmer like myself really appreciates, with nobody to turn to to have my many questions explained. I've never gotten INTO a computer book like I have this one. My deepest appreciation to the author. If he ever attempts another topic I would like to know about it just out of respect for his work ethic as an author. Very impressive.

Comments about O'Reilly Media Mastering Regular Expressions:

Terrific!

I bought the book with the intention of using it as a refrence and before too long I had read it from cover to cover.

Comments about O'Reilly Media Mastering Regular Expressions:

This book isn't good. To call it such would be an insult to the author and O'Reilly. This should be the standard for technical books. Content, style, and delivery are so near perfect it makes other excellent technical books look mediocre. Great job Jeffrey and O'Reilly!

If you at the point in your programming where you are ready to go beyond simply using Regular Expressions to actually understanding them you need this book. If you are just getting started with Regular Expressions you will be ready for anything with this book at hand.

Comments about O'Reilly Media Mastering Regular Expressions:

It's fantastic. Cannot explain, with, more, words.

Comments about O'Reilly Media Mastering Regular Expressions:

WOW!

What an incredible book to read. Jeffrey Friedl made a big effort to describe a not so easy programming technique, into a full comprehensive matter. This isn't an easy subject to write about. The author made a very interesting gift to us all.

The book would need an update though.

Comments about O'Reilly Media Mastering Regular Expressions:

This is an exceptional book. Mr. Friedl has the rare ability to take a potentially dry subject like Regular Expressions and produce and enlightening, entertaining, and thoroughly addicting book. I especially like his conversational style and inclusion of humorous anecdotes like his experience explaining the term "Regular Expressions" to his Japanese colleagues.

If you don't already know Regular Expressions, you need this book. If you think you already know Regular Expressions like the back of your hand, you really need this book!

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Have you ever had a school teacher that just loves what he or she is teaching? Loves it so much the lessons become interesting no matter how tedious or difficult the matter of the lessons are? Well, this is a book written in that sprit. I never expected regexes to be fun, but now I am a addict ...

This is a tough book to read through, but it is well written and even a non-programmer like me can enjoy it. On and off it goes so deep into the magic world of regexes I loose my directions, but for the most part it is reasonable hands-on and does teach a lot of good regex common sense.

If you really want to utilise regexes for getting things done -- beyond what search and replace in word processors provide -- this book is a must have. And fun: I had never realised the impact of a thing such as nothingness before I read this book ...