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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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Sorry to chip in and change subjet... But would you recommend that book for learning regular expressions as a non CS guy? I'm working more and more towards bash scripts and I run occasionally into the case where I need to write some regex and I'm getting frustrated not being able to do so and always ask for some help here on Lemmy.
It really rough sometimes where simply using a regex tester isn't enough to fill my use case.
Absolutely, it's an excellent book which I highly recommend.
The latest edition (3rd) is almost 20 years old, but I don't think regex has actually changed substantially since then so it should still be very useful. (I read the 2nd edition cover-to-cover and enjoyed it enough that I bought the 3rd when it was released ๐)
If you're going to buy a physical copy from amazon you should use the author's link here to give him slightly more money for it. But if you just want a PDF I see one is available here.
Thank you :) I will buy a physical copy next month. But I do prefer a PDF version because I do work a lot with zotero. I will find a work arround though !
Sorry for my badly written first comment, I was in a hurry and after a re-read I saw how badly It was to read it...
Thanks again !