Authors: Mehran Habibi
Pages: 280
Publisher: Apress
ISBN13: 9781590591079
The writing and progression of material are good. The examples are very well thought out and explained.
— Simon P. Chappell, Slashdot contributor
Java has always been an excellent language for working with objects. But Javas text manipulation mechanisms have always been limited, compared to languages like AWK and Perl. On the flip side, a new regular expressions package in Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) brings hope to the Java text mechanisms. This package provides you everything necessary to use regular expressionsall packaged in a simplified object-oriented framework.
In addition to working examples and best practices, this book features a detailed API reference with examples supporting nearly every method, and a step-by-step tutorial to create your own regular expressions. With time, youll discover that regular expressions are extremely powerful in your programming arsenaland youll enjoy using them! And once youve mastered these tools, youll ponder how you ever managed without them?