What You Will Learn

Formulate an expression

Work with arbitrary char classes, disjunctions, and operator precedence

Execute regular expressions and visualize using finite state machines

Deal with modifiers, including greedy and lazy loops

Handle substring extraction from regex using Perl 6 capture groups, capture substrings, and reuse substrings

Who This Book Is For

If you have dealt with at least one programming language, chances are you know enough to understand regular expressions, and the examples in this book will help you develop proficiency.