I’ve been programming now 10 years - mainly in PHP and Javascript, and I still have trouble with regular expressions. Over the winter I’d like to take the time to remedy that in my spare time, but was wondering if there where any good books or sites on the subject.
About my current skill level: I do use regex occasionally, but its enough of a bugbear to me that I’ll avoid it unless the alternative is very inefficient or infeasible. Usually I crib other people’s expressions and modify them until I can get them to work. What I’m looking for is to get to a level where I’m really comfortable with creating them on my own. I’m pretty sure I could handle something intermediate level.
(Filed here since regex appears in several programming languages, though each language’s implementation varies slightly)
It’s not a book, but I really like http://www.regular-expressions.info/
I like to think I’m pretty versed in regex, and most of what I know about it comes from that website.
I usually just use whatever is available as an online resource. @rpkamp mentioned regular-expressions.info, which is a great resource, but where I work, it’s blocked. So, wherever Google points me that isn’t blocked, that’s what I use.
