Regex Pocket Guide: Quick Reference to Regular Expressions for Developers & Tech Professionals
Regex Pocket Guide: Quick Reference to Regular Expressions for Developers & Tech Professionals by Gabriel Anhaia
English | September 6, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FQ4DMHKP | 101 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
English | September 6, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0FQ4DMHKP | 101 pages | EPUB | 0.13 Mb
Regex Pocket Guide: Quick Reference to Regular Expressions for Developers & Tech Professionals
Regular expressions (regex) are one of the most powerful tools in a developer’s toolkit—whether you are validating input, parsing logs, cleaning data, or searching across massive datasets. Yet, regex often feels intimidating and unreadable. Regex Pocket Guide turns that complexity into clarity with a concise, hands-on reference you can rely on daily.
This is not just a syntax list. It’s a practical, narrative-driven guide designed to help you understand, master, and apply regex patterns in real-world projects across languages and tools. You’ll learn step by step, from the fundamentals to advanced techniques, all presented in a format that’s easy to read, maintain, and revisit whenever you need it.
What You Will Master:
- Regex Fundamentals: Grasp the core building blocks—character classes, quantifiers, anchors, and boundaries.
- Intermediate Patterns: Master grouping, capturing, alternation, lookarounds, flags, and named groups.
- Practical Applications: Apply regex to validation, search & replace, parsing, and data cleaning with confidence.
- Regex Across Languages & Tools: Explore how regex behaves in Unix utilities, popular programming languages, and modern editors.
- Reference & Cheat Sheets: Keep a handy collection of metacharacter references, common patterns, and best practices at your fingertips.