‘Regular Expressions Cookbook’ Complete
Saturday, March 7th, 2009 • Related • Filed Under
Just a quick post to note that Regular Expressions Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts and me (published by O'Reilly Media) is available for pre-order on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and many other places. It was mostly completed at the end of January, and is coming out May 15 June 4.
Regular Expressions Cookbook contains a full regex tutorial (presented in cookbook format) and over 100 additional regular expression recipes that are explained in depth and work with C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, VB.NET, and more. Get it while it's hot!
And yes, that's a rat musk shrew (or more specifically, greater white-toothed shrew) on the cover.
Comment by Christoph on 7 March 2009:
Great work, Steven! I will be pre-ordering mine today. How/why did they choose a rat? My O’Reilly Python book also has a rat on the cover.
Comment by Steven Levithan on 8 March 2009:
Thanks, Christoph! Learning Python, which I suppose you’re talking about (several other O’Reilly Python books have rodents on their covers), has a wood rat on the cover according to the O’Reilly Animal Menagerie. O’Reilly folks didn’t explain why they chose a rat for the cover of Regular Expressions Cookbook, but they gave Jan and me the opportunity to express concern in case we hated rats. 🙂
Comment by William on 11 March 2009:
Dude, as I mentioned earlier that cover is epic FAIL. I even gave you the perfect alternative. Your book’s still going to move units but it could’ve been so much more…
Comment by Tim on 12 March 2009:
Why, that’s none other than Regex the Rat! Hero of the common man, friend of the downtrodden, and foe of all evil irregular expressions! Go, Regex, go!
Comment by Katrina L. on 19 March 2009:
I am so excited to be among the first to get this book. So, finally, all those Starbucks hours, and caffeine jitters will pay off! 😉
when’s the next book coming?
Comment by Mo Hamdi on 1 April 2009:
Very proud of you brother, keep it up, We Miss you.
Comment by Sunny James on 2 April 2009:
Steve! I’d like to be able to read your blog, but I can’t. Me no understandy this mumbo jumbo. Saaad. Cool that you’re in Iraq though. I was there.
Comment by Steven Levithan on 14 April 2009:
@Sunny James, reeally? That’s cool… when and why were you there?
Comment by ddrudik on 7 May 2009:
Looking forward to reading the book, seems interesting, here’s hoping this is just the first in a series of regex books you author. And the cover animal could have been worse, “Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++” has ticks on its cover.
About the animals:
http://oreilly.com/animals.html
Comment by Steven Levithan on 29 May 2009:
@ddrudik, thanks!
The book has been finalized, printed, and is available now, although Amazon still lists June 4 as the release date.
Comment by Mati on 31 May 2009:
So why shall I buy this book when there is the perfect and very detailed book “Mastering regular Expressions” by Jeffrey Friedl?
Comment by Steven Levithan on 13 September 2009:
@Mati, for the shrew. Yes, it’s that cute. But seriously, the two books serve different purposes. I’m a big fan of Friedl’s book, too. Have a look at the reviews on Amazon and elsewhere and see if this might be up your alley.
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