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If you really want to learn regex, you'll have a hard time piecing it all together via blog posts. Brad Freidl's Mastering Regular Expressions is a good book t
by gorjusborg 3y ago
If you really want to learn regex, you'll have a hard time piecing it all together via blog posts.
Brad Freidl's Mastering Regular Expressions is a good book to read if you want to stop being surprised/lost.
I'll admit I stopped at the dive into DFA/NFA engine details.
- macintux 3y agoWriting a string -> NFA -> DFA grep-like tool is one of my most memorable college projects. Had a lot of fun with that, and decades later I ended up reusing some of the concepts for a work project.