Object Orientation and General technical topics

Object Orientation and General technical topics module Q804

Regular Expression Internals

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module Q804. This topic is presented on public course Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions - training course - Making the most of Pattern Matching

Regular Expressions - Making the most of Pattern Matching Regular expressions are probably the most powerful pattern matching tools that is available. ...

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Making a Lua program run more than 10 times faster

I made an extraordinary claim on Thursday. One of my delegates had written a program that analyzed a huge data file in a Lua script, and it was taking ...

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Next course - 7th January 2008, Regular Expressions

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Macho matching - do not do it!

There's something vaguely macho about doing a grand regular expression match to do all your filtering in a single line of code - but being macho may be ...

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Matcho matching - do not do it!

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This topic is presented on public course Regular Expressions

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

Compile and match phases.
Saving state and backtracking - why and what is the effect?
Global and "study" matches, Regular Expression objects, etc

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