Re: Regular Expressions, where can I read about it?

I've found Learning Perl has an excellent section on teaching regex to newbies. Programming Perl has a very extensive (but hard to comprehend even for experienced programmers) matching description. I definitely think preg() is better than ereg(), so you should buy (and maybe later return, all ethical questions aside) either of these books. Programing Perl has a complete and descriptive function reference and Perl and PHP share a lot of functions. www.Bookpool.com has some very cheap technical books. At 23:33 9/6/2000 -0400, Drew P. Vogel wrote:

http://www.perl.com/pub/v/documentation/ would be a good place to begin reading up on perl regexps. The documentation there isn't great, but it suffices for most people. --Drew Vogel On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Maxim Maletsky wrote: Hi, I am trying to create a class to filter the data in&out the database, it is not easy since I have too many specific needs, a simple nl2br() won't help me at all... I am very bad in regular expressions, I need to learn much more about it before I actually start writing my class... Does anyone of you know a good tutorial on regex, like how to use it (not function or php specifically) , examples, ideas, manual, lists, codes... whatever.. Thank you, guys. Maxim Maletsky - maxim@j-door.com <mailto:maxim@j-door.com> Webmaster, J-Door.com / J@pan Inc. LINC Media, Inc. TEL: 03-3499-2175 x 1271 FAX: 03-3499-3109 http://www.j-door.com <http://www.j-door.com/> http://www.japaninc.net <http://www.japaninc.net/> http://www.lincmedia.co.jp <http://www.lincmedia.co.jp/> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net