Mastering Regular Expressions

Technical Issues......Page 4 Social and Political Issues......Page 5 A Few Abstract Object Models......Page 6 Packages, Packages, Packages......Page 10 Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks......Page 13 Recommendations......Page 15 Regex Flavor......Page 16 Using java.util.regex......Page 19 The Pattern.Compile ( ) Factory......Page 21 The Matcher Object......Page 22 Other Pattern Methods......Page 28 ORO's Perl5Util......Page 30 A Mini Pel5Util Reference......Page 31 Using ORO's Underlying Classes......Page 35 Judging a Regex Package 4 Technical Issues 4 Social and Political Issues 5 Object Models 6 A Few Abstract Object Models 6 Growing Complexity 10 Packages, Packages, Packages 10 Why So Many "Perl5" Flavors? 13 Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks 13 Recommendations 15 Sun's Regex Package 16 Regex Flavor 16 Using java.util.regex 19 The Pattern.Compile ( ) Factory 21 The Matcher Object 22 Other Pattern Methods 28 A Quick Look at Jakarta-ORO 30 ORO's Perl5Util 30 A Mini Pel5Util Reference 31 Using ORO's Underlying Classes 35