Customer Rating:  
Summary: Too Many Implementations?
Comment: Based on the .NET chapter it would appear that the author tackled too many implementations. It looked like all of the .NET stuff came from the SDK, sans discussion & examples. Developers worrying about an expression to be executed on several different platforms might find this type of overview helpful. How many folks do that though?
Customer Rating:
Summary: An Excellent Regex Reference
Comment: I recommend getting this book
if you feel comfortable with regular expressions
and regular expressions are important to you.As one expects from an O'Reilly Pocket Reference,
this book is compact but still covers a lot of ground.
For a whole bunch of applications, it provides:
* tables of various groupings of regex metacharacters,
summarizing their syntax and meaning;
* summaries of other regex related features,
but not in tabular form;
* examples;
* a few references in case you need to go deeper. The information is concise and well chosen. This is a reference,
but in applications where you use regular expressions less,
it may also be useful for expanding your knowledge significantly.
It was for me. If you wish, take a look at my
more detailed review on Oakland Perl Mongers.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Regarding the DavidPerry Review
Comment: Nice cut and paste of the Ann Coulter book review. I particularly liked the "Menckenesque invective" comment which made me think that I had remembered reading it somewhere before. Anyway, I just wanted the readers of these reviews to know not to trust that one. Some people actually use these reviews to make a choice and avoid wasting money.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Undeniably brilliant!!!
Comment: "Regular Expression Pocket Reference" is one of the hottest and most controversial books of the year! Stubblebine is a fluent polemicist with a gift for the Menckenesque invective...and he can harness such language to subtle, syllogistic argument.
Written with a great deal of passion, the real source of this book's strength - and it's usefulness - was it's painstaking marshalling of evidence. This has got to be the most popular nonfiction book in America.
More important that Stubblebine's other works, "Clown management for midgets", this book addresses the much broader issues of Java and Perl and even delves into the murky recesses of C#.
Read it! Live it!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Too many implementations covered
Comment: I love this series of books (the C#, C++ and STL pocket refs are my favorite), but the Regular Expression pocket ref tries to cover too many implementations. You only get about 10 pages for each language so, unless you use multiple implementations (e.g. C#/.NET, Perl, JavaScript, etc), this just isn't good value for money. I returned my copy and printed out a quick reference from one of the many Internet programming sites.
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