Introduction to Perl for Unix System Administrators

(Perl without excessive complexity)

by Dr Nikolai Bezroukov

Ch 5. Regular Expressions

Contents

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Overview

5.3. More complex Regular Expressions

5.4. Non-greedy matching

5.5. Split function

5.6 Best practices

5.7 HTML matching examples

5.8. Summary

5.9. Homework

This chapter provides an overview of regular expression from the point of view of Unix administrator. There are many others good Perl regular expressions tutorials on the Web. Among those that I would recommend are the following:

Perl Regular Expressions
Regular Expression HOWTO by A.M. Kuchling
perlretut - perldoc.perl.org by Mark Kvale. This page provides a basic tutorial on understanding, creating and using regular expressions in Perl.
Perl Regular Expression Mastery
Regular expression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Perl Regular Expression Quick Reference 1.04
Perl Regular Expressions Tip Sheet
Google books
- Mastering regular expressions - by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl - 515 pages
- Beginning regular expressions - 742 pages

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