Mastering Regular Expressions
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\? 139
\<...\> 21, 25, 50, 131-132, 150
\<...\>, in egrep 15
\<...\>, in Emacs 100
\<...\>, mimicking in Perl 341-342
\+ 139
\(...\) 135
`\+' history 87
\0 116-117
\1 136, 300, 303
\1, in Perl 41
\A 111, 127-128
\A, in Java 373
\A, optimization 246
\a 114-115
\b 65, 114-115, 400
\b, backspace and word boundary 44, 46
\b, in Perl 286
\b\B 240
\C 328
\D 49, 119
\d 49, 119
\d, in Perl 288
\e 79, 114-115
\E 290
\f 114-115
\f, introduced 44
\G 128-131, 212, 315-316, 362
\G, advanced example 130
\G, in Java 373
\G, in .NET 402
\G, optimization 246
\G, optimization, \kname (see named capture)
\l 290
\L...\E 290
\L...\E, inhibiting 292
\n 49, 114-115
\n, introduced 44
\n, machine-dependency 114
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S} 290
\N{name} 290
\N{name}, inhibiting 292
\p{...} 119
\p{^...} 288
\p{all} 380
\p{All} 123
\p{All}, in Perl 288
\p{Any} 123
\p{Any}, in Perl 288
\p{Arrows} 122
\p{Assigned} 123-124
\p{Assigned}, in Perl 288
\p{Basic_Latin} 122
\p{Box_Drawing} 122
\p{C} 120
\p{Cc} 121
\p{Cf} 121
\p{Cherokee} 120
\p{Close_Punctuation} 121
\p{Cn} 121, 123-124, 380, 401
\p{Co} 121
\p{Connector_Punctuation} 121
\p{Control} 121
\p{Currency} 122
\p{Currency_Symbol} 121
\p{Cyrillic} 120, 122
\p{Dash_Punctuation} 121
\p{Decimal_Digit_Number} 121
\p{Dingbats} 122
\p{Enclosing_Mark} 121
\p{Final_Punctuation} 121
\p{Format} 121
\p{Gujarati} 120
\p{Han} 120
\p{Hangul_Jamo} 122
\p{Hebrew} 120, 122
\p{Hiragana} 120
\p{InArrows} 122
\p{InBasic_Latin} 122
\p{InBox_Drawing} 122
\p{InCurrency} 122
\p{InCyrillic} 122
\p{InDingbats} 122
\p{InHangul_Jamo} 122
\p{InHebrew} 122
\p{Inherited} 122
\p{Initial_Punctuation} 121
\p{InKatakana} 122
\p{InTamil} 122
\p{InTibetan} 122
\p{IsCherokee} 120
\p{IsCommon} 122
\p{IsCyrillic} 120
\p{IsGujarati} 120
\p{IsHan} 120
\p{IsHebrew} 120
\p{IsHiragana} 120
\p{IsKatakana} 120
\p{IsLatin} 120
\p{IsThai} 120
\p{IsTibetan} 122
\p{Katakana} 120, 122
\p{L} 119-120, 131, 380, 390
\p{L&} 120-121, 123
\p{L&}, in Perl 288
\p{Latin} 120
\p{Letter} 120, 288
\p{Letter_Number} 121
\p{Line_Separator} 121
\p{Ll} 121, 400
\p{Lm} 121, 400
\p{Lo} 121, 400
\p{Lowercase_Letter} 121
\p{Lt} 121, 400
\p{Lu} 121, 400
\p{M} 120, 125
\p{Mark} 120
\p{Math_Symbol} 121
\p{Mc} 121
\p{Me} 121
\p{Mn} 121
\p{Modifier_Letter} 121
\p{Modifier_Symbol} 121
\p{N} 120, 390
\p{Nd} 121, 380, 400
\p{Nl} 121
\p{No} 121
\p{Non_Spacing_Mark} 121
\p{Number} 120
\p{Open_Punctuation} 121
\p{Other} 120
\p{Other_Letter} 121
\p{Other_Number} 121
\p{Other_Punctuation} 121
\p{Other_Symbol} 121
\p{P} 120
\p{Paragraph_Separator} 121
\p{Pc} 121, 400
\p{Pd} 121
\p{Pe} 121
\p{Pf} 121, 400
\p{Pi} 121, 400
\p{Po} 121
\p{Private_Use} 121
\p{Ps} 121
\p{Punctuation} 120
\p{S} 120
\p{Sc} 121-122
\p{Separator} 120
\p{Sk} 121
\p{Sm} 121
\p{So} 121
\p{Space_Separator} 121
\p{Spacing_Combining_Mark} 121
\p{Symbol} 120
\p{Tamil} 122
\p{Thai} 120
\p{Tibetan} 122
\p{Titlecase_Letter} 121
\p{Unassigned} 121, 123
\p{Unassigned}, in Perl 288
\p{Uppercase_Letter} 121
\p{Z} 119-120, 380, 400
\p{Zl} 121
\p{Zp} 121
\p{Zs} 121
\Q...\E 290
\Q...\E, inhibiting 292
\Q...\E, in Java 373
\r 49, 114-115
\r, machine-dependency 114
\s 49, 119
\s, introduction 47
\s, in Emacs 127
\s, in Perl 288
\S 49, 56, 119
\t 49, 114-115
\t, introduced 44
\u 116, 290, 400
\U 116
\U...\E 290
\U...\E, inhibiting 292
\V 364
\v 114-115, 364
\W 49, 119
\w 49, 65, 119
\w, in Emacs 127
\w, many different interpretations 93
\w, in Perl 288
\x 116, 400
\x, in Perl 286
\X 107, 125
\z 111, 127-128, 316
\z, in Java 373
\z, optimization 246
\Z 111, 127-128
\Z, in Java 373
\Z, optimization 246
// 322
/c 129-130, 315
/e 319-321
/g 61, 130, 307, 311-312, 315, 319
/g, introduced 51
/g, with regex object 354
/i 134
/i, introduced 47
/i, with study 359
/m 134
/o 352-353
/o, with regex object 354
/osmosis 293
/s 134
/x 134, 288
/x, introduced 72
/x, history 90
-Dr 363
-i as -y 86
-y old grep 86
<> 54
<>, and $_ 79
!~ 309
$_ 79, 308, 311, 314, 318, 322, 353-354, 359
$_, in .NET 418
$& 299-300
$&, checking for 358
$&, mimicking 302, 357
$&, naughty 356
$&, in .NET 418
$&, okay for debugging 331
$&, pre-match copy 355
$$ in .NET 418
$* 362
$ 111-112, 128
$, escaping 77
$, optimization 246
$, Perl interpolation 289
$+ 300-301, 345
$+, example 202
$+, .NET 202
$+, in .NET 418
$/ 35, 78
$' 300
$', checking for 358
$', mimicking 357
$', naughty 356
$', in .NET 418
$', okay for debugging 331
$', pre-match copy 355
$` 300
$`, checking for 358
$`, mimicking 357
$`, naughty 356
$`, in .NET 418
$`, okay for debugging 331
$`, pre-match copy 355
$0 300
$1 135-136, 300, 303
$1, introduced 41
$1, in Java 388
$1, in .NET 418
$1, in other languages 136
$1, pre-match copy 355
$ARGV 79
$HostnameRegex 76, 136, 303, 351
$HttpUrl 303, 305, 345, 351
$LevelN 330, 343
$^N 300-301, 344-346
${name} 403
${name~} 418
$NestedStuffRegex 339, 346
$^R 302, 327
$^W 297
% Perl interpolation 289
(?!) 240, 333, 335, 340-341
(?#...) 99, 134, 414
(?#...), in Java 373
(?#...), in Java, (?:...) (see non-capturing parentheses)
(?#...), in Java, (...) (see parentheses)
(?#...), in Java, (?i) (see: case-insensitive mode; mode modifier)
(?#...), in Java, (?i:...) (see mode-modified span)
(?#...), in Java, (?if then|else) (see conditional)
(?#...), in Java, (?m:...) (see mode-modified span)
(?#...), in Java, (?m) (see: enhanced line-anchor mode; mode modifier)
(?n) 402
.*, introduced 55
.*, mechanics of matching 152
.*, optimization 246
.*, warning about 56
.NET 399-432
.NET, $+ 202
.NET, flavor overview 91
.NET, after-match data 136
.NET, benchmarking 236
.NET, JIT 404
.NET, line anchors 128
.NET, literal-text mode 135
.NET, MISL 404
.NET, object model 411
.NET, regex approach 96-97
.NET, regex flavor 401
.NET, search-and-replace 408, 417-418
.NET, URL parsing example 204
.NET, version covered 91
.NET, word boundaries 132
=~ 308-309, 318
=~, introduced 38
=~, introduced, ? (see question mark)
?...? 308
@+ 300, 302, 314
@"..." 102
@- 300, 302, 339
@ Perl interpolation 289
[=...=] 126
[:<:] 92
[:...:] 125-126
[.....] 126
\p{...} in java.util.regex 380
^ 111-112, 128
^, optimization 245-246
^Subject: example 94, 151-152, 154, 242, 244-245, 289
^Subject: example, in Java 95, 393
^Subject: example, in Perl 55
^Subject: example, in Perl debugger 361
^Subject: example, in Python 97
^Subject: example, in VB.NET 96
{min,max} 20, 140
\0 116-117
$0 300
\1 136, 300, 303
\1, in Perl 41
$1 135-136, 300, 303
$1, introduced 41
$1, in Java 388
$1, in .NET 418
$1, in other languages 136
$1, pre-match copy 355
8859-1 encoding 29, 87, 105, 107, 121
\A 111, 127-128
\A, in Java 373
\A, optimization 246
@ escaping 77
\a 114-115
issues overview encoding 105
after-match variables, in Perl 299
after-match variables, pre-match copy 355
Aho, Alfred 86, 180
\p{All} 123
\p{All}, in Perl 288
\p{all} 380
all-in-one object model 369
alternation 138
alternation, and backtracking 231
alternation, introduced 13-14
alternation, efficiency 222, 231
alternation, greedy 174-175
alternation, hand tweaking 260-261
alternation, order of 175-177, 223, 260
alternation, order of, for correctness 28, 189, 197
alternation, order of, for efficiency 224
alternation, and parentheses 13
analogy, backtracking, bread crumbs 158-159
analogy, backtracking, stacking dishes 159
analogy, ball rolling 261
analogy, building a car 31
analogy, charging batteries 179
analogy, engines 143-147
analogy, first come, first served 153
analogy, gas additive 150
analogy, learning regexes, Pascal 36
analogy, learning regexes, playing rummy 33
analogy, regex as a language 5, 27
analogy, regex as filename patterns 4
analogy, regex as filename patterns, regex-directed match (see NFA)
analogy, regex as filename patterns, text-directed match (see DFA)
analogy, transmission 148-149, 228
analogy, transparencies (Perl's local) 298
analogy, transparencies (Perl's local), anchor (also see: word boundaries; enhanced line-anchor mode)
analogy, overview 127
analogy, caret 127
analogy, dollar 127
analogy, end-of-line optimization 246
analogy, exposing 255
analogy, line 87, 111-112, 150
anchored(...) 362
anchored `string' 362
AND class set operations 123-124
ANSI escape sequences 79
\p{Any} 123
\p{Any}, in Perl 288
\p{Any}, in Perl, any character (see dot)
Apache, org.apache.xerces.utils.regex 372
Apache, ORO 392-398
Apache, ORO, benchmark results 376
Apache, ORO, comparative description 374
Apache, Regexp, comparative description 375
Apache, Regexp, speed 376
appendReplacement() 388
appendTail() 389
$ARGV 79
\p{Arrows} 122
ASCII encoding 29, 105-106, 114, 121
Asian character encoding 29
AssemblyName 429
\p{Assigned} 123-124
\p{Assigned}, in Perl 288
\p{Assigned}, in Perl, asterisk (see star)
\p{Assigned}, in Perl, atomic grouping (also see possessive quantifiers)
\p{Assigned}, introduced 137-138
\p{Assigned}, details 170-172
\p{Assigned}, for efficiency 171-172, 259, 268-270
\p{Assigned}, essence 170-171
\p{Assigned}, example 198, 201, 213, 271, 330, 340-341, 346
AT&T Bell Labs 86
auto-lookaheadification 403
automatic possessification 251
awk, after-match data 136
awk, gensub 183
awk, history 87
awk, search-and-replace 99
awk, version covered 91
awk, word boundaries 132
\b 65, 114-115, 400
\b, backspace and word boundary 44, 46
\b, in Perl 286
<B>...</B> 165-167
<B>...</B>, unrolling 270
\b\B 240
backreferences 117, 135
backreferences, introduced with egrep 20-22
backreferences, DFA 150, 182-183
backreferences, vs. octal escape 406-407
backreferences, remembering text 21
backreferences, remembering text, backspace (see \b)
backtracking 163-177
backtracking, introduction 157-163
backtracking, and alternation 231
backtracking, avoiding 171-172
backtracking, computing count 227
backtracking, counting 222, 224
backtracking, detecting excessive 249-250
backtracking, efficiency 179-180
backtracking, essence 168-169
backtracking, exponential match 226
backtracking, global view 228-232
backtracking, LIFO 159
backtracking, of lookaround 173-174
backtracking, neverending match 226
backtracking, non-match example 160-161
backtracking, POSIX NFA example 229
backtracking, saved states 159
backtracking, simple example 160
backtracking, simple lazy example 161
balanced constructs 328-331, 340-341, 430
balancing regex issues 186
Balling, Derek xxii
Barwise, J. 85
base character 107, 125
Basic Regular Expressions 87-88
\p{Basic_Latin} 122
\b\B 240
beginOffset 396
benchmarking 232-239
benchmarking, comparative 248, 376-377
benchmarking, compile caching 351
benchmarking, in Java 234-236, 375-377
benchmarking, for naughty variables 358
benchmarking, in .NET 236, 404
benchmarking, with neverending match 227
benchmarking, in Perl 360
benchmarking, pre-match copy 356
benchmarking, in Python 237
benchmarking, in Ruby 238
benchmarking, in Tcl 239
Bennett, Mike xxi
Berkeley 86
Better-Late-Than-Never 234-236, 375
<B>...</B> 165-167
<B>...</B>, unrolling 270
blocks 122, 288, 380, 400
BLTN 235-236, 375
BOL 362
\p{Box_Drawing} 122
Boyer-Moore 244, 247
bracket expressions 125
BRE 87-88
bread-crumb analogy 158-159
Bulletin of Math. Biophysics 85
bump-along, introduction 148-149
bump-along, avoiding 210
bump-along, distrusting 215-218
bump-along, optimization 255
bump-along, in overall processing 241
byte matching 328
/c 129-130, 315
/c, strings 102
\p{C} 120
\C 328
¢ 122
C comments, matching 272-276
C comments, unrolling 275-276
C comments, unrolling, caching (also see regex objects)
C comments, benchmarking 351
C comments, compile 242-244
C comments, in Emacs 244
C comments, integrated 242
C comments, in Java 393
C comments, in .NET 426
C comments, object-oriented 244
C comments, procedural 243
C comments, in Tcl 244
C comments, unconditional 350
CANON_EQ (Pattern flag) 108, 380
Capture 431
CaptureCollection 432
car analogy 83-84
caret anchor introduced 8
carriage return 109
case title 109
case folding 290, 292
case folding, inhibiting 292
CASE_INSENSITIVE (Pattern flag) 95, 109, 380, 383
case-insensitive mode 109
case-insensitive mode, introduced 14-15
case-insensitive mode, egrep 14-15
case-insensitive mode, /i 47
case-insensitive mode, Ruby 109
case-insensitive mode, with study 359
cast 294-295
\p{Cc} 121
\p{Cf} 121
character, base 125
character, classes 117
character, combining 107, 125, 288
character, combining, Inherited script 122
character, vs. combining characters 107
character, control 116
character, initial character discrimination 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
character, machine-dependent codes 114
character, multiple code points 107
character, as opposed to byte 29
character, separating with split 322
character, shorthands 114-115
character class, introduced 9-10
character class, vs. alternation 13
character class, mechanics of matching 149
character class, negated, must match character 11-12
character class, negated, and newline 118
character class, negated, Tcl 111
character class, positive assertion 118
character class, of POSIX bracket expression 125
character class, range 9, 118
character class, as separate language 10
character equivalent 126
CharacterIterator 372
charnames pragma 290
CharSequence 372, 390
CheckNaughtiness 358
\p{Cherokee} 120
Chinese text processing 29
chr 414
chunk limit, Java ORO 395
chunk limit, java.util.regex 391
chunk limit, Perl 323
class, vs. dot 118
class, elimination optimization 249
class, initial class discrimination 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
class, and lazy quantifiers 167
class, set operations 123-125, 375
class, subtraction 124
Clemens, Sam 375
Click, Cliff xxii
client VM 234, 236
clock clicks 239
\p{Close_Punctuation} 121
closures 339
\p{Cn} 121, 123-124, 380, 401
\p{Co} 121
code point, introduced 106
code point, beyond U+FFFF 108
code point, multiple 107
code point, unassigned in block 122
coerce 294-295
cold VM 235
collating sequences 126
combining character 107, 125, 288
combining character, Inherited script 122
com.ibm.regex, comparative description 372
com.ibm.regex, speed 377
commafying a number example 64-65
commafying a number example, introduced 59
commafying a number example, in Java 393
commafying a number example, without lookbehind 67
COMMAND.COM 7
comments 99, 134
comments, in Java 98
comments, matching of C comments 272-276
comments, matching of Pascal comments 265
comments, in .NET regex 414
COMMENTS (Pattern flag) 99, 218, 378, 380, 386
comments and free-spacing mode 110
Communications of the ACM 85
compile() 383
compile, caching 242-244
compile, once (/o) 352-353
compile, on-demand 351
compile, regex 404-405
compile() (Pattern factory) 383
Compiled (.NET) 236, 402, 404, 414, 421-422, 429
Compilers -- Principles, Techniques, and Tools 180
CompileToAssembly 427, 429
com.stevesoft.pat, comparative description 374
com.stevesoft.pat, speed 377
conditional 138-139
conditional, with embedded regex 327, 335
conditional, in Java 373
conditional, mimicking with lookaround 139
conditional, in .NET 403
Config module 290, 299
conflicting metacharacters 44-46
\p{Connector_Punctuation} 121
Constable, Robert 85
Constable, Robert, forcing 310
Constable, Robert, metacharacters 44-46
Constable, Robert, regex use 189
continuation lines 178, 186-187
continuation lines, unrolling 270
contorting an expression 294-295
\p{Control} 121
control characters 116
Conway, Damian 339
cooking for HTML 68, 408
correctness vs. efficiency 223-224
www.cpan.org 358
CR 109, 382
Cruise, Tom 51
crummy analogy 158-159
CSV parsing example, java.util.regex 218, 386
CSV parsing example, .NET 429
CSV parsing example, ORO 397
CSV parsing example, Perl 212-219
CSV parsing example, unrolling 271
currency, \p{Currency} 122
currency, \p{Currency_Symbol} 121
currency, \p{Sc} 121
currency, Unicode block 121-122
\p{Currency} 122
\p{Currency_Symbol} 121
currentTimeMillis() 236
\p{Cyrillic} 120, 122
\d 49, 119
\d, in Perl 288
\D 49, 119
Darth 197
dash in character class 9
\p{Dash_Punctuation} 121
DBIx::DWIW 258
debugcolor 363
debugging 361-363
debugging, with embedded code 331-332
debugging, regex objects 305-306
debugging, run-time 362
\p{Decimal_Digit_Number} 121
default regex 308
define-key 100
delegate 417-418
delimited text 196-198
delimited text, standard formula 196, 273
delimiter, with shell 7
delimiter, with substitution 319
delimiter, with substitution, Deterministic Finite Automaton (see DFA)
Devel::FindAmpersand 358
Devel::SawAmpersand 358
DFA, introduced 145, 155
DFA, acronym spelled out 156
DFA, backreferences 150, 182-183
DFA, boring 157
DFA, compared with NFA 224, 227
DFA, efficiency 179
DFA, implementation ease 182
DFA, lazy evaluation 181
DFA, longest-leftmost match 177-179
DFA, testing for 146-147
DFA, in theory, same as an NFA 180
dialytika 108
\p{Dingbats} 122
dish-stacking analogy 159
dollar for Perl variable 37
dollar anchor 127
dollar anchor, introduced 8
dollar value example 24-25, 51-52, 167-170, 175, 194-195
DOS 7
dot 118
dot, introduced 11-12
dot, vs. character class 118
dot, mechanics of matching 149
dot, Tcl 112
.NET 399-432
.NET, $+ 202
.NET, flavor overview 91
.NET, after-match data 136
.NET, benchmarking 236
.NET, JIT 404
.NET, line anchors 128
.NET, literal-text mode 135
.NET, MISL 404
.NET, object model 411
.NET, regex approach 96-97
.NET, regex flavor 401
.NET, search-and-replace 408, 417-418
.NET, URL parsing example 204
.NET, version covered 91
.NET, word boundaries 132
DOTALL (Pattern flag) 380, 382
dot-matches-all mode 110-111
doubled-word example, description 1
doubled-word example, in egrep 22
doubled-word example, in Emacs 100
doubled-word example, in Java 81
doubled-word example, in Perl 35, 77-80
double-quoted string example, allowing escaped quotes 196
double-quoted string example, egrep 24
double-quoted string example, final regex 263
double-quoted string example, makudonarudo 165, 169, 228-232, 264
double-quoted string example, sobering example 222-228
double-quoted string example, unrolled 262, 268
double-word finder example, description 1
double-word finder example, in egrep 22
double-word finder example, in Emacs 100
double-word finder example, in Java 81
double-word finder example, in Perl 35, 77-80
-Dr 363
dragon book 180
DWIW (DBIx) 258
dynamic regex 327-331
dynamic regex, sanitizing 337
dynamic scope 295-299
dynamic scope, vs. lexical scope 299
/e 319-321
\e 79, 114-115
\E 290
earliest match wins 148-149
EBCDIC 29
ECMAScript (.NET) 400, 402, 406-407, 415, 421
ed 85
ed, and backtracking 179-180
ed, correctness 223-224
ed, Perl-specific issues 347-363
ed, regex objects 353-354
ed, unlimited lookbehind 133
egrep, flavor overview 91
egrep, introduced 6-8
egrep, metacharacter discussion 8-22
egrep, after-match data 136
egrep, backreference support 150
egrep, case-insensitive match 15
egrep, doubled-word solution 22
egrep, example use 14
egrep, flavor summary 32
egrep, history 86-87
egrep, regex implementation 182
egrep, version covered 91
egrep, word boundaries 132
electric engine analogy 143-147
Emacs, flavor overview 91
Emacs, after-match data 136
Emacs, control characters 116
Emacs, re-search-forward 100
Emacs, search 100
Emacs, strings as regexes 100
Emacs, syntax class 127
Emacs, version covered 91
Emacs, word boundaries 132
email address example 70-73, 98
email address example, in Java 98
email address example, in VB.NET 99
embedded code, local 336
embedded code, my 338-339
embedded code, regex construct 327, 331-335
embedded code, sanitizing 337
embedded string check optimization 247, 257
Embodiments of Mind 85
Empty 426
\p{Enclosing_Mark} 121
\p{Enclosing_Mark}, introduced 29
\p{Enclosing_Mark}, issues overview 105
\p{Enclosing_Mark}, ASCII 29, 105-106, 114, 121
\p{Enclosing_Mark}, Latin-1 29, 87, 105, 107, 121
\p{Enclosing_Mark}, UCS-2 106
\p{Enclosing_Mark}, UCS-4 106
\p{Enclosing_Mark}, UTF-16 106
\p{Enclosing_Mark}, UTF-8 106
end() 385
END block 358
endOffset 396
end-of-string anchor optimization 246
engine, introduced 27
engine, analogy 143-147
engine, hybrid 183, 239, 243
engine, implementation ease 182
engine, testing type 146-147
engine, testing type, with neverending match 227
engine, type comparison 156-157, 180-182
English module 357
English vs. regex 275
enhanced line-anchor mode 111-112
enhanced line-anchor mode, introduced 69
ERE 87-88
errata xxi
Escape 427
escape, introduced 22
escape, term defined 27
essence, atomic grouping 170-171
essence, greediness, laziness, and backtracking 168-169
essence, greediness, laziness, and backtracking, NFA (see backtracking)
eval 319
example, atomic grouping 198, 201, 213, 271, 330, 340-341, 346
example, commafying a number 64-65
example, commafying a number, introduced 59
example, commafying a number, in Java 393
example, commafying a number, without lookbehind 67
example, CSV parsing, java.util.regex 218, 386
example, CSV parsing, .NET 429
example, CSV parsing, ORO 397
example, CSV parsing, Perl 212-219
example, CSV parsing, unrolling 271
example, dollar value 24-25, 51-52, 167-170, 175, 194-195
example, double-quoted string, allowing escaped quotes 196
example, double-quoted string, egrep 24
example, double-quoted string, final regex 263
example, double-quoted string, makudonarudo 165, 169, 228-232, 264
example, double-quoted string, sobering example 222-228
example, double-quoted string, unrolled 262, 268
example, double-word finder, description 1
example, double-word finder, in egrep 22
example, double-word finder, in Emacs 100
example, double-word finder, in Java 81
example, double-word finder, in Perl 35, 77-80
example, email address 70-73, 98
example, email address, in Java 98
example, email address, in VB.NET 99
example, filename 190-192
example, five modifiers 316
example, floating-point number 194
example, form letter 50-51
example, gr[ea]y 9
example, hostname 22, 73, 76, 98-99, 136-137, 203, 260, 267, 304, 306
example, hostname, egrep 25
example, hostname, Java 209
example, hostname, plucking from text 71-73, 205-208
example, hostname, in a URL 74-77
example, hostname, validating 203-205
example, hostname, VB.NET 204
example, HTML, conversion from text 67-77
example, HTML, cooking 68, 408
example, HTML, encoding 408
example, HTML, <HR> 194
example, HTML, link 201-203
example, HTML, optional 139
example, HTML, paired tags 165
example, HTML, parsing 130, 315, 321
example, HTML, tag 9, 18-19, 26, 200-201, 326, 357
example, HTML, URL 74-77, 203, 205-208, 303
example, HTML, URL-encoding 320
example, IP 5, 187-189, 267, 311, 314, 348-349
example, Jeffs 61-64
example, lookahead 61-64
example, mail processing 53-59
example, makudonarudo 165, 169, 228-232, 264
example, pathname 190-192
example, population 59
example, possessive quantifiers 198, 201
example, postal code 208-212
example, regex overloading 341-345
example, stock pricing 51-52, 167-168
example, stock pricing, with alternation 175
example, stock pricing, with atomic grouping 170
example, stock pricing, with possessive quantifier 169
example, temperature conversion, in .NET 419
example, temperature conversion, in Java 389
example, temperature conversion, in Perl 37
example, temperature conversion, Perl one-liner 283
example, text-to-HTML 67-77
example, this|that 132, 138, 243, 245-246, 252, 255, 260-261
example, unrolling the loop 270-271
example, URL 74-77, 201-204, 208, 260, 303-304, 306, 320
example, URL, egrep 25
example, URL, Java 209
example, URL, plucking 205-208
example, username 73, 76, 98
example, username, plucking from text 71-73
example, username, in a URL 74-77
example, variable names 24
example, ZIP code 208-212
exception, IllegalArgumentException 383, 388
exception, IllegalStateException 385
exception, IndexOutOfBoundsException 384-385, 388
exception, IOException 81
exception, NullPointerException 396
exception, PatternSyntaxException 381, 383
Explicit (Option) 409
ExplicitCapture (.NET) 402, 414, 421
exponential match 222-228, 330, 340
exponential match, avoiding 264-265
exponential match, discovery 226-228
exponential match, explanation 226-228
exponential match, non-determinism 264
exponential match, short-circuiting 250
exponential match, solving with atomic grouping 268
exponential match, solving with possessive quantifiers 268
expose literal text 255
expression, context 294-295
expression, contorting 294-295
Extended Regular Expressions 87-88
\f 114-115
\f, introduced 44
\f, introduced, Fahrenheit (see temperature conversion example)
failure, atomic grouping 171-172
failure, forcing 240, 333, 335, 340-341
FF 109
file globs 4
file-check example 2, 36
filename, example 190-192
filename, patterns (globs) 4
filename, prepending to line 79
\p{Final_Punctuation} 121
find() 384
FindAmpersand 358
five modifiers example 316
Flanagan, David xxii
flavor, Perl 286-293
flavor, superficial chart, general 91
flavor, superficial chart, Perl 285, 287
flavor, superficial chart, POSIX 88
flavor, term defined 27
flex version covered 91
floating `string' 362
floating-point number example 194
forcing failure 240, 333, 335, 340-341
foreach vs. while vs. if 320
form letter example 50-51
\p{Format} 121
freeflowing regex 277-281
Friedl, Alfred 176
Friedl, brothers 33
Friedl, Fumie xxi
Friedl, Fumie, birthday 11-12
Friedl, Liz 33
Friedl, Stephen xxii
fully qualified name 295
functions related to regexes in Perl 285
\G 128-131, 212, 315-316, 362
\G, advanced example 130
\G, in Java 373
\G, in .NET 402
\G, optimization 246
/g 61, 130, 307, 311-312, 315, 319
/g, introduced 51
/g, with regex object 354
garbage collection Java benchmarking 236
gas engine analogy 143-147
gensub 183
George, Kit xxii
GetGroupNames 421-422
GetGroupNumbers 421-422
getMatch() 397
global vs. private Perl variables 295
globs filename 4
GNU Java packages 374
GNU awk, after-match data 136
GNU awk, gensub 183
GNU awk, version covered 91
GNU awk, word boundaries 132
GNU egrep, after-match data 136
GNU egrep, backreference support 150
GNU egrep, doubled-word solution 22
GNU egrep, -i bug 21
GNU egrep, regex implementation 182
GNU egrep, word boundaries 132
GNU egrep, word boundaries, GNU Emacs (see Emacs)
GNU grep, shortest-leftmost match 183
GNU grep, version covered 91
GNU sed, after-match data 136
GNU sed, version covered 91
GNU sed, word boundaries 132
gnu.regexp, comparative description 374
gnu.regexp, speed 377
gnu.rex 374
Goldberger, Ray xxii
Gosling, James 89
GPOS 362
gr[ea]y example 9
gr[ea]y example, introduced 151
gr[ea]y example, alternation 174-175
gr[ea]y example, and backtracking 162-177
gr[ea]y example, deference to an overall match 153, 274
gr[ea]y example, essence 159, 168-169
gr[ea]y example, favors match 167-168
gr[ea]y example, first come, first served 153
gr[ea]y example, global vs. local 182
gr[ea]y example, in Java 373
gr[ea]y example, vs. lazy 169, 256-257
gr[ea]y example, localizing 225-226
gr[ea]y example, quantifier 139-140
gr[ea]y example, too greedy 152
green dragon 180
grep, flavor overview 91
grep, as an acronym 85
grep, history 86
grep, regex flavor 86
grep, version covered 91
grep, -y option 86
grep in Perl 324
group(), java.util.regex 385
group(), ORO 396
Group object (.NET) 412
Group object (.NET), Capture 431
Group object (.NET), creating 423
Group object (.NET), Index 424
Group object (.NET), Length 424
Group object (.NET), Success 424
Group object (.NET), ToString 424
Group object (.NET), using 424
Group object (.NET), Value 424
GroupCollection 423, 432
groupCount() 385
grouping and capturing 20-22
GroupNameFromNumber 421-422
GroupNumberFromName 421-422
groups() ORO 397
Groups Match object method 423
\p{Gujarati} 120
Gutierrez, David xxii
\p{Han} 120
hand tweaking, alternation 260-261
hand tweaking, caveats 253
\p{Hangul_Jamo} 122
HASH(0x80f60ac) 257
\p{Hebrew} 120, 122
hex escape 116-117
hex escape, in Java 373
hex escape, in Perl 286
Hietaniemi, Jarkko xxii
highlighting with ANSI escape sequences 79
\p{Hiragana} 120
history, `\+' 87
history, AT&T Bell Labs 86
history, awk 87
history, Berkeley 86
history, ed trivia 86
history, egrep 86-87
history, grep 86
history, lex 87
history, Perl 88-90, 308
history, of regexes 85-91
history, sed 87
history, underscore in \w 89
history, /x 90
hostname example 22, 73, 76, 98-99, 136-137, 203, 260, 267, 304, 306
hostname example, egrep 25
hostname example, Java 209
hostname example, plucking from text 71-73, 205-208
hostname example, in a URL 74-77
hostname example, validating 203-205
hostname example, VB.NET 204
$HostnameRegex 76, 136, 303, 351
hot VM 235, 375
HTML, cooking 68, 408
HTML, matching tag 200-201
HTML example, conversion from text 67-77
HTML example, cooking 68, 408
HTML example, encoding 408
HTML example, <HR> 194
HTML example, link 201-203
HTML example, optional 139
HTML example, paired tags 165
HTML example, parsing 130, 315, 321
HTML example, tag 9, 18-19, 26, 200-201, 326, 357
HTML example, URL 74-77, 203, 205-208, 303
HTML example, URL-encoding 320
HTTP newlines 115
HTTP URL example 25, 74-77, 201-209, 260, 303-304, 306, 320
http://regex.info/ xxi, 7, 345, 372
$HttpUrl 303, 305, 345, 351
hybrid regex engine 183, 239, 243
hyphen in character class 9
-i as -y 86
/i 134
/i, introduced 47
/i, with study 359
/i, with study, (?i) (see: case-insensitive mode; mode modifier)
IBM (Java package), comparative description 372
IBM (Java package), speed 377
identifier matching 24
if vs. while vs. foreach 320
IgnoreCase (.NET) 96, 99, 402, 413, 421
IgnorePatternWhitespace (.NET) 99, 402, 413, 421
IllegalArgumentException 383, 388
IllegalStateException 385
implementation of engine 182
implicit 362
implicit anchor optimization 246
Imports 407, 409, 428
\p{InArrows} 122
\p{InBasic_Latin} 122
\p{InBox_Drawing} 122
\p{InCurrency} 122
\p{InCyrillic} 122
Index, Group object method 424
Index, Match object method 423
IndexOutOfBoundsException 384-385, 388
\p{InDingbats} 122
indispensable TiVo 3
\p{InHangul_Jamo} 122
\p{InHebrew} 122
\p{Inherited} 122
initial class discrimination 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
\p{Initial_Punctuation} 121
\p{InKatakana} 122
\p{InTamil} 122
integrated handling 94-95
integrated handling, compile caching 242
interpolation 288-289
interpolation, introduced 77
interpolation, caching 351
interpolation, mimicking 321
interpolation, in PHP 103
INTERSECTION class set operations 124
interval 140
interval, introduced 20
interval, [X{0,0}] 140
\p{InTibetan} 122
IOException 81
IP example 5, 187-189, 267, 311, 314, 348-349
Iraq 11
Is vs. In 120, 122-123
Is vs. In, with java.util.regex 380
Is vs. In, in .NET 401
Is vs. In, in Perl 288
\p{IsCherokee} 120
\p{IsCommon} 122
\p{IsCyrillic} 120
\p{IsGujarati} 120
\p{IsHan} 120
\p{IsHebrew} 120
\p{IsHiragana} 120
\p{IsKatakana} 120
\p{IsLatin} 120
IsMatch (Regex object method) 415
ISO-8859-1 encoding 29, 87, 105, 107, 121
\p{IsThai} 120
\p{IsTibetan} 122
Japanese, text processing 29
“japhy” 246
Java 365-398
Java, benchmarking 234-236
Java, BLTN 235-236, 375
Java, choosing a regex package 366
Java, exposed mechanics 374
Java, fastest package 377
Java, JIT 235
Java, list of packages 372
Java, matching comments 272-276
Java, object models 368-372
Java, package flavor comparison 373
Java, “Perl5 flavors” 375
Java, strings 102
Java, version covered 91
Java, VM 234-236, 375
java.util.regex 95-96, 378-391
java.util.regex, after-match data 136
java.util.regex, code example 383, 389
java.util.regex, comparative description 372
java.util.regex, CSV parsing 386
java.util.regex, dot modes 111
java.util.regex, doubled-word example 81
java.util.regex, line anchors 128
java.util.regex, line terminators 382
java.util.regex, match modes 380
java.util.regex, object model 381
java.util.regex, regex flavor 378-381
java.util.regex, search-and-replace 387
java.util.regex, speed 377
java.util.regex, split 390
java.util.regex, URL parsing example 209
java.util.regex, version covered 91
java.util.regex, word boundaries 132
Jeffs example 61-64
JfriedlsRegexLibrary 428-429
JIT, Java 235
JIT, .NET 404
JRE 234
jregex comparative description 374
\p{Katakana} 120, 122
keeping in sync 210-211
Keisler, H. J. 85
Kleene, Stephen 85
The Kleene Symposium 85
Korean text processing 29
Kunen, K. 85
\p{L&} 120-121, 123
\p{L&}, in Perl 288
\p{L} 119-120, 131, 380, 390
£ 122
\l 290
\l, character class 10, 13
\l, identifiers 24
\p{Latin} 120
Latin-1 encoding 29, 87, 105, 107, 121
lazy 166-167
lazy, essence 159, 168-169
lazy, favors match 167-168
lazy, vs. greedy 169, 256-257
lazy, in Java 373
lazy, optimization 249, 256
lazy, quantifier 140
lazy evaluation 181, 355
\L...\E 290
\L...\E, inhibiting 292
lc 290
lcfirst 290
leftmost match 177-179
Length, Group object method 424
Length, Match object method 423
length() ORO 396
length-cognizance optimization 245, 247
\p{Letter} 120, 288
\p{Letter_Number} 121
$LevelN 330, 343
lex 86
lex, $ 111
lex, dot 110
lex, history 87
lex, and trailing context 182
lexer building 130, 315
lexical scope 299
LF 109, 382
Li, Yadong xxii
LIFO backtracking 159
limit, backtracking 237
limit, recursion 249-250
limit, recursion, line (also see string)
limit, anchor optimization 246
limit, vs. string 55
line anchor 111-112
line anchor, mechanics of matching 150
line anchor, variety of implementations 87
line feed 109
LINE SEPARATOR 109, 121, 382
line terminators 108-109, 111, 128, 382
line terminators, with $ and ^ 111
\p{Line_Separator} 121
link, matching 201
link, matching, Java 204, 209
list context 294, 310-311
list context, forcing 310
literal string initial string discrimination 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
literal text, introduced 5
literal text, exposing 255
literal text, mechanics of matching 149
literal text, pre-check optimization 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
literal-text mode 112, 134-135, 290
literal-text mode, inhibiting 292
\p{Ll} 121, 400
\p{Lm} 121, 400
\p{Lo} 121, 400
local 296, 341
local, in embedded code 336
local, vs. my 297
locale 126
locale, overview 87
locale, \w 119
localizing 296-297
localtime 294, 319, 351
locking in regex literal 352
“A logical calculus of the ideas imminent in nervous activity” 85
longest match finding 334-335
longest-leftmost match 148, 177-179
lookahead 132
lookahead, introduced 60
lookahead, auto 403
lookahead, example 61-64
lookahead, in Java 373
lookahead, mimic atomic grouping 174
lookahead, mimic optimizations 258-259
lookahead, negated, <B>...</B> 167
lookahead, positive vs. negative 66
lookaround, introduced 59
lookaround, backtracking 173-174
lookaround, in conditional 139
lookaround, and DFAs 182
lookaround, doesn't consume text 60
lookaround, mimicking class set operations 124
lookaround, mimicking word boundaries 132
lookaround, in Perl 288
lookbehind 132
lookbehind, in Java 373
lookbehind, in .NET 402
lookbehind, in Perl 288
lookbehind, positive vs. negative 66
lookbehind, unlimited 402
lookingAt() 385
Lord, Tom 182
\p{Lowercase_Letter} 121
LS 109, 121, 382
\p{Lt} 121, 400
\p{Lu} 121, 400
Lunde, Ken xxii, 29
\p{M} 120, 125
/m 134
m/.../ introduced 38
machine-dependent character codes 114
MacOS 114
mail processing example 53-59
makudonarudo example 165, 169, 228-232, 264
\p{Mark} 120
match 306-318
match, actions 95
match, context 294-295, 309
match, context, list 294, 310-311
match, context, scalar 294, 310, 312-316
match, DFA vs. NFA 224
match, efficiency 179
match, example with backtracking 160
match, example without backtracking 160
match, lazy example 161
match, leftmost-longest 335
match, longest 334-335
match, m/.../, introduced 38
match, m/.../, introduced, mechanics (also see: greedy; lazy)
match, m/.../, .* 152
match, m/.../, greedy introduced 151
match, m/.../, anchors 150
match, m/.../, capturing parentheses 149
match, m/.../, character classes and dot 149
match, m/.../, consequences 156
match, m/.../, literal text 149
match, modes 109-112
match, modes, java.util.regex 380
match, negating 309
match, neverending 222-228, 330, 340
match, neverending, avoiding 264-265
match, neverending, discovery 226-228
match, neverending, explanation 226-228
match, neverending, non-determinism 264
match, neverending, short-circuiting 250
match, neverending, solving with atomic grouping 268
match, neverending, solving with possessive quantifiers 268
match, NFA vs. DFA 156-157, 180-182
match, NFA vs. DFA, position (see pos)
match, POSIX, in Perl 335
match, shortest-leftmost 183
match, side effects 317
match, side effects, intertwined 43
match, side effects, Perl 40
match, speed 181
match, in a string 27
match, tag-team 130
match, viewing mechanics 331-332
Match Empty 426
match() 393
Match (.NET) Success 96
Match object (.NET) 411
Match object (.NET), Capture 431
Match object (.NET), creating 415, 423
Match object (.NET), Groups 423
Match object (.NET), Index 423
Match object (.NET), Length 423
Match object (.NET), NextMatch 423
Match object (.NET), Result 423
Match object (.NET), Success 421
Match object (.NET), Synchronized 424
Match object (.NET), ToString 422
Match object (.NET), using 421
Match object (.NET), Value 422
Match (Regex object method) 415
“match rejected by optimizer” 363
match result object model 371
match state object model 370
MatchCollection 416
matcher() (Pattern method) 384
Matcher object 384
Matcher object, reusing 387
matches, unexpected 194-195
matches, viewing all 332
matches() (Pattern method) 384, 390
Matches (Regex object method) 416
MatchEvaluator 417-418
matching, delimited text 196-198
matching, HTML tag 200
matching, longest-leftmost 177-179
MatchObject object (.NET) creating 416
\p{Math_Symbol} 121
Maton, William xxii, 36
MBOL 362
\p{Mc} 121
McCloskey, Mike xxii
McCulloch, Warren 85
\p{Me} 121
mechanics viewing 331-332
metacharacter, introduced 5
metacharacter, conflicting 44-46
metacharacter, differing contexts 10
metacharacter, first-class 87, 92
metacharacter, vs. metasequence 27
metasequence defined 27
mimic, $` 357
mimic, $' 357
mimic, $& 302, 357
mimic, atomic grouping 174
mimic, class set operations 124
mimic, conditional with lookaround 139
mimic, initial-character discrimination optimization 258-259
mimic, named capture 344-345
mimic, POSIX matching 335
mimic, possessive quantifiers 343-344
mimic, variable interpolation 321
mimic, word boundaries 66, 132, 341-342
minlen length 362
minus in character class 9
MISL .NET 404
\p{Mn} 121
mode modifier 109, 133-135
mode-modified span 109, 134
modes introduced with egrep 14-15
\p{Modifier_Letter} 121
\p{Modifier_Letter}, combining 69
\p{Modifier_Letter}, example with five 316
\p{Modifier_Letter}, /g 51
\p{Modifier_Letter}, /i 47
\p{Modifier_Letter}, “locking in” 304-305
\p{Modifier_Letter}, notation 98
\p{Modifier_Letter}, /osmosis 293
\p{Modifier_Letter}, Perl core 292-293
\p{Modifier_Letter}, with regex object 304-305
\p{Modifier_Symbol} 121
Mui, Linda xxii
multi-character quotes 165-166
Multiline (.NET) 402, 413-414, 421
MULTILINE (Pattern flag) 81, 380, 382
multiple-byte character encoding 29
MungeRegexLiteral 342-344, 346
my, binding 339
my, in embedded code 338-339
my, vs. local 297
MySQL, after-match data 136
MySQL, DBIx::DWIW 258
MySQL, version covered 91
MySQL, word boundaries 132
\n 49, 114-115
\n, introduced 44
\n, machine-dependency 114
\p{N} 120, 390
(?n) 402
$^N 300-301, 344-346
named capture 137
named capture, mimicking 344-345
named capture, .NET 402
named capture, with unnamed capture 403
naughty variables 356
naughty variables, okay for debugging 331
\p{Nd} 121, 380, 400
negated class, introduced 10-11
negated class, and lazy quantifiers 167
negated class, Tcl 111
negated class, Tcl, negative lookahead (see lookahead, negative)
negated class, Tcl, negative lookbehind (see lookbehind, negative)
NEL 109, 382, 400
nervous system 85
nested constructs, .NET 430
nested constructs, Perl 328-331, 340-341
$NestedStuffRegex 339, 346
.NET 399-432
.NET, $+ 202
.NET, flavor overview 91
.NET, after-match data 136
.NET, benchmarking 236
.NET, JIT 404
.NET, line anchors 128
.NET, literal-text mode 135
.NET, MISL 404
.NET, object model 411
.NET, regex approach 96-97
.NET, regex flavor 401
.NET, search-and-replace 408, 417-418
.NET, URL parsing example 204
.NET, version covered 91
.NET, word boundaries 132
neurophysiologists early regex study 85
neverending match 222-228, 330, 340
neverending match, avoiding 264-265
neverending match, discovery 226-228
neverending match, explanation 226-228
neverending match, non-determinism 264
neverending match, short-circuiting 250
neverending match, solving with atomic grouping 268
neverending match, solving with possessive quantifiers 268
New Regex 96, 99, 410, 415
newline and HTTP 115
NEXT LINE 109, 382, 400
NextMatch (Match object method) 423
NFA, first introduced 145
NFA, introduction 153
NFA, acronym spelled out 156
NFA, and alternation 174-175
NFA, compared with DFA 156-157, 180-182
NFA, control benefits 155
NFA, efficiency 179
NFA, efficiency, essence (see backtracking)
NFA, freeflowing regex 277-281
NFA, and greediness 162
NFA, implementation ease 182
NFA, nondeterminism 265
NFA, nondeterminism, checkpoint 264
NFA, POSIX efficiency 179
NFA, testing for 146-147
NFA, theory 180
Nicholas, Ethan xxii
\p{Nl} 121
\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S} 290
\N{name} 290
\N{name}, inhibiting 292
\p{No} 121
no re 'debug' 361
no_match_vars 357
nomenclature 27
non-capturing parentheses 45, 136-137, 373
non-capturing parentheses, (also see parentheses), Nondeterministic Finite Automaton (see NFA)
None (.NET) 415, 421
nonillion 226
nonregular sets 180
\p{Non_Spacing_Mark} 121
“normal” 262-266
null 116
null, with dot 118
NullPointerException 396
\p{Number} 120
/o 352-353
/o, with regex object 354
Obfuscated Perl Contest 320
object model, Java 368-372
object model, .NET 410-411
Object Oriented Perl 339
object-oriented handling 95-97
object-oriented handling, compile caching 244
octal escape 115, 117
octal escape, vs. backreference 406-407
octal escape, in Java 373
octal escape, in Perl 286
on-demand recompilation 351
oneself example 332, 334
\p{Open_Punctuation} 121
operators Perl list 285
optimization 239-252
optimization, automatic possessification 251
optimization, BLTN 235-236, 375
optimization, with bump-along 255
optimization, end-of-string anchor 246
optimization, excessive backtrack 249-250
optimization, hand tweaking 252-261
optimization, implicit line anchor 191
optimization, initial character discrimination 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
optimization, JIT 235, 404
optimization, lazy evaluation 181
optimization, lazy quantifier 249, 256
optimization, leading [.*] 246
optimization, literal-string concatenation 247
optimization, need cognizance 252
optimization, needless class elimination 249
optimization, needless parentheses 248
optimization, pre-check of required character 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
optimization, simple repetition, discussed 247-248
optimization, small quantifier equivalence 251-252
optimization, state suppression 250-251
optimization, string/line anchors 149, 181
optimization, super-linear short-circuiting 250
Option (.NET) 409
Option (.NET), whitespace 18
Options (Regex object method) 421
OR class set operations 123-124
Oram, Andy xxii, 5
ordered alternation 175-177
ordered alternation, pitfalls 176
org.apache.oro.text.regex 392-398
org.apache.oro.text.regex, benchmark results 376
org.apache.oro.text.regex, comparative description 374
org.apache.regexp, comparative description 375
org.apache.regexp, speed 376
org.apache.xerces.utils.regex 372
ORO 392-398
ORO, benchmark results 376
ORO, comparative description 374
osmosis 293
/osmosis 293
\p{Other} 120
\p{Other_Letter} 121
\p{Other_Number} 121
\p{Other_Punctuation} 121
\p{Other_Symbol} 121
our 295, 336
overload pragma 342
\p{...} 119
\p{P} 120
\p{^...} 288
\p{All} 123
\p{All}, in Perl 288
\p{all} 380
panic: top_env 332
\p{Any} 123
\p{Any}, in Perl 288
Papen, Jeffrey xxii
PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR 109, 121, 382
\p{Paragraph_Separator} 121
parentheses, as \(...\) 86
parentheses, and alternation 13
parentheses, balanced 328-331, 340-341, 430
parentheses, balanced, difficulty 193-194
parentheses, capturing 135-136, 300
parentheses, capturing, introduced with egrep 20-22
parentheses, capturing, and DFAs 150, 182
parentheses, capturing, mechanics 149
parentheses, capturing, in Perl 41
parentheses, capturing only 152
parentheses, counting 21
parentheses, elimination optimization 248
parentheses, elimination optimization, grouping-only (see non-capturing parentheses)
parentheses, limiting scope 18
parentheses, named capture 137, 344-345, 402-403
parentheses, nested 328-331, 340-341, 430
parentheses, non-capturing 45, 136-137
parentheses, non-capturing, in Java 373
parentheses, non-participating 300
parentheses, with split, Java ORO 395
parentheses, with split, .NET 403, 420
parentheses, with split, Perl 326
\p{Arrows} 122
parsing regex 404
participate in match 139
Pascal 36, 59, 182
Pascal, matching comments of 265
\p{Assigned} 123-124
\p{Assigned}, in Perl 288
Pat (Java Package), comparative description 374
Pat (Java Package), speed 377
patch 88
pathname example 190-192
Pattern, CANON_EQ 108, 380
Pattern, CASE_INSENSITIVE 95, 109, 380, 383
Pattern, COMMENTS 99, 218, 378, 380, 386
Pattern, compile() 383
Pattern, DOTALL 380, 382
Pattern, matcher() 384
Pattern, matches() 384, 390
Pattern, MULTILINE 81, 380, 382
Pattern, UNICODE_CASE 380, 383
Pattern, UNIX_LINES 380, 382
PatternSyntaxException 381, 383
\p{Basic_Latin} 122
\p{Box_Drawing} 122
\p{Pc} 121, 400
\p{C} 120
\p{Cc} 121
\p{Cf} 121
\p{Cherokee} 120
\p{Close_Punctuation} 121
\p{Cn} 121, 123-124, 380, 401
\p{Co} 121
\p{Connector_Punctuation} 121
\p{Control} 121
PCRE, lookbehind 132
PCRE, version covered 91
\p{Currency} 122
\p{Currency_Symbol} 121
\p{Cyrillic} 120, 122
\p{Pd} 121
\p{Dash_Punctuation} 121
\p{Decimal_Digit_Number} 121
\p{Dingbats} 122
\p{Pe} 121
PeakWebhosting.com xxii
\p{Enclosing_Mark} 121
people, Aho, Alfred 86, 180
people, Balling, Derek xxii
people, Barwise, J. 85
people, Bennett, Mike xxi
people, Clemens, Sam 375
people, Click, Cliff xxii
people, Constable, Robert 85
people, Conway, Damian 339
people, Cruise, Tom 51
people, Flanagan, David xxii
people, Friedl, Alfred 176
people, Friedl, brothers 33
people, Friedl, Fumie xxi
people, Friedl, Fumie, birthday 11-12
people, Friedl, Liz 33
people, Friedl, Stephen xxii
people, George, Kit xxii
people, Goldberger, Ray xxii
people, Gosling, James 89
people, Gutierrez, David xxii
people, Hietaniemi, Jarkko xxii
people, Keisler, H. J. 85
people, Kleene, Stephen 85
people, Kunen, K. 85
people, Li, Yadong xxii
people, Lord, Tom 182
people, Lunde, Ken xxii, 29
people, Maton, William xxii, 36
people, McCloskey, Mike xxii
people, McCulloch, Warren 85
people, Mui, Linda xxii
people, Nicholas, Ethan xxii
people, Oram, Andy xxii, 5
people, Papen, Jeffrey xxii
people, Perl Porters 90
people, Pinyan, Jeff 246
people, Pitts, Walter 85
people, Purcell, Shawn xxii
people, Reed, Jessamyn xxii
people, Reinhold, Mark xxii
people, Rudkin, Kristine xxii
people, Savarese, Daniel xxii
people, Sethi, Ravi 180
people, Spencer, Henry 88, 182-183, 243
people, Thompson, Ken 85-86, 110
people, Trapszo, Kasia xxii
people, Tubby 264
people, Ullman, Jeffrey 180
people, Wall, Larry 88-90, 138, 363-364
people, Wilson, Dean xxii
people, Woodward, Josh xxii
people, Zawodny, Jeremy xxii, 258
Perl, $/ 35
Perl, flavor overview 91, 287
Perl, introduction 37-38
Perl, introduction, context (also see match, context)
Perl, introduction, contorting 294
Perl, efficiency 347-363
Perl, greatest weakness 286
Perl, history 88-90, 308
Perl, in Java 375, 392
Perl, line anchors 128
Perl, modifiers 292-293
Perl, motto 348
Perl, option, -0 36
Perl, option, -c 361
Perl, option, -Dr 363
Perl, option, -e 36, 53, 361
Perl, option, -i 53
Perl, option, -M 361
Perl, option, -Mre=debug 363
Perl, option, -n 36
Perl, option, -p 53
Perl, option, -w 38, 296, 326, 361
Perl, regex operators 285
Perl, version covered 91
Perl, warnings 38
Perl, warnings, ($^W variable) 297
Perl, warnings, use warnings 326, 363
Perl Porters 90
Perl5Util 392, 396
perladmin 299
\p{Pf} 121, 400
\p{Final_Punctuation} 121
\p{Format} 121
\p{Gujarati} 120
\p{Han} 120
\p{Hangul_Jamo} 122
\p{Hebrew} 120, 122
\p{Hiragana} 120
PHP, after-match data 136
PHP, line anchors 128
PHP, lookbehind 132
PHP, mode modifiers 133
PHP, strings 103
PHP, version covered 91
PHP, word boundaries 132
\p{Pi} 121, 400
\p{InArrows} 122
\p{InBasic_Latin} 122
\p{InBox_Drawing} 122
\p{InCurrency} 122
\p{InCyrillic} 122
\p{InDingbats} 122
\p{InHangul_Jamo} 122
\p{InHebrew} 122
\p{Inherited} 122
\p{Initial_Punctuation} 121
\p{InKatakana} 122
\p{InTamil} 122
\p{InTibetan} 122
Pinyan, Jeff 246
\p{IsCherokee} 120
\p{IsCommon} 122
\p{IsCyrillic} 120
\p{IsGujarati} 120
\p{IsHan} 120
\p{IsHebrew} 120
\p{IsHiragana} 120
\p{IsKatakana} 120
\p{IsLatin} 120
\p{IsThai} 120
\p{IsTibetan} 122
Pitts, Walter 85
\p{Katakana} 120, 122
\p{L} 119-120, 131, 380, 390
\p{L&} 120-121, 123
\p{L&}, in Perl 288
\p{Latin} 120
\p{Letter} 120, 288
\p{Letter_Number} 121
\p{Line_Separator} 121
\p{Ll} 121, 400
\p{Lm} 121, 400
\p{Lo} 121, 400
\p{Lowercase_Letter} 121
\p{Lt} 121, 400
\p{Lu} 121, 400
plus, as \+ 139
plus, introduced 18-20
plus, backtracking 162
plus, greedy 139
plus, lazy 140
plus, possessive 140
\p{M} 120, 125
\p{Mark} 120
\p{Math_Symbol} 121
\p{Mc} 121
\p{Me} 121
\p{Mn} 121
\p{Modifier_Letter} 121
\p{Modifier_Symbol} 121
\p{N} 120, 390
\p{Nd} 121, 380, 400
\p{Nl} 121
\p{No} 121
\p{Non_Spacing_Mark} 121
\p{Number} 120
\p{Po} 121
\p{Open_Punctuation} 121
population example 59
pos 128-131, 313-314, 316
pos, (also see \G), positive lookahead (see lookahead, positive)
pos, (also see \G), positive lookbehind (see lookbehind, positive)
POSIX, [:...:] 125
POSIX, [.....] 126
POSIX, Basic Regular Expressions 87-88
POSIX, bracket expressions 125
POSIX, character class 125
POSIX, character class and locale 126
POSIX, character equivalent 126
POSIX, collating sequences 126
POSIX, dot 118
POSIX, empty alternatives 138
POSIX, Extended Regular Expressions 87-88
POSIX, superficial flavor chart 88
POSIX, in Java 374
POSIX, locale 126
POSIX, locale, overview 87
POSIX, longest-leftmost rule 177-179, 335
POSIX NFA, backtracking example 229
POSIX NFA, testing for 146-147
possessive quantifiers 140, 172-173
possessive quantifiers, automatic 251
possessive quantifiers, for efficiency 259, 268-270
possessive quantifiers, example 198, 201
possessive quantifiers, mimicking 343-344
possessive quantifiers, optimization 250-251
postal code example 208-212
postMatch() 397
\p{Other} 120
\p{Other_Letter} 121
\p{Other_Number} 121
\p{Other_Punctuation} 121
\p{Other_Symbol} 121
£ 122
\p{P} 120
\p{Paragraph_Separator} 121
\p{Pc} 121, 400
\p{Pd} 121
\p{Pe} 121
\p{Pf} 121, 400
\p{Pi} 121, 400
\p{Po} 121
\p{Private_Use} 121
\p{Ps} 121
\p{Punctuation} 120
pragma, charnames 290
pragma, overload 342
pragma, re 361, 363
pragma, strict 295, 336, 345
pragma, warnings 326, 363
pre-check of required character 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 361
pre-check of required character, mimic 258-259
pre-check of required character, viewing 332
preMatch() 397
pre-match copy 355
prepending filename to line 79
price rounding example 51-52, 167-168
price rounding example, with alternation 175
price rounding example, with atomic grouping 170
price rounding example, with possessive quantifier 169
Principles of Compiler Design 180
printf 40
private vs. global Perl variables 295
\p{Private_Use} 121
procedural handling 95-97
procedural handling, compile caching 243
procmail 94
procmail, version covered 91
Programming Perl 283, 286, 339
promote 294-295
properties 119-121, 123-124, 288, 380
\p{S} 120
PS 109, 121, 382
\p{Ps} 121
\p{Sc} 121-122
\p{Separator} 120
\p{Sk} 121
\p{Sm} 121
\p{So} 121
\p{Space_Separator} 121
\p{Spacing_Combining_Mark} 121
\p{Symbol} 120
\p{Tamil} 122
\p{Thai} 120
\p{Tibetan} 122
\p{Titlecase_Letter} 121
publication, Bulletin of Math. Biophysics 85
publication, Communications of the ACM 85
publication, Compilers -- Principles, Techniques, and Tools 180
publication, Embodiments of Mind 85
publication, The Kleene Symposium 85
publication, “A logical calculus of the ideas imminent in nervous activity” 85
publication, Object Oriented Perl 339
publication, Principles of Compiler Design 180
publication, Programming Perl 283, 286, 339
publication, Regular Expression Search Algorithm 85
publication, “The Role of Finite Automata in the Development of Modern Computing Theory” 85
\p{Unassigned} 121, 123
\p{Unassigned}, in Perl 288
\p{Punctuation} 120
\p{Uppercase_Letter} 121
Purcell, Shawn xxii
Python, after-match data 136
Python, benchmarking 237
Python, line anchors 128
Python, mode modifiers 133
Python, regex approach 97
Python, strings 103-104
Python, version covered 91
Python, word boundaries 132
Python, \Z 111
\p{Z} 119-120, 380, 400
\p{Zl} 121
\p{Zp} 121
\p{Zs} 121
Qantas 11
\Q...\E 290
\Q...\E, inhibiting 292
\Q...\E, in Java 373
qed 85
qed, introduced 76
qed, introduced, quantifier (also see: plus; star; question mark; interval; lazy; greedy; possessive quantifiers)
qed, and backtracking 162
qed, factor out 255
qed, grouping for 18
qed, multiple levels 265
qed, optimization 247, 249
qed, and parentheses 18
qed, possessive quantifiers 140, 172-173
qed, possessive quantifiers, for efficiency 259, 268-270
qed, possessive quantifiers, mimicking, mimicking 343-344
qed, possessive quantifiers, optimization, optimization 250-251
qed, possessive quantifiers, automatic, automatic 251
qed, question mark, as \? 139
qed, question mark, introduced 17-18
qed, question mark, backtracking 160
qed, question mark, greedy 139
qed, question mark, lazy 140
qed, question mark, possessive 140
qed, smallest preceding subexpression 29
question mark, as \? 139
question mark, backtracking 160
question mark, greedy 139
question mark, lazy 140
question mark, possessive 140
question mark, possessive, quoted string (see double-quoted string example)
quotes multi-character 165-166
r"..." 103
$^R 302, 327
\r 49, 114-115
\r, machine-dependency 114
re 361
re 'debug' 363
re pragma 361, 363
reality check 226-228
red dragon 180
Reed, Jessamyn xxii
Reflection 429
regex, balancing needs 186
regex, compile 179-180, 350
regex, default 308
regex, delimiters 291-292
regex, delimiters, DFA (see DFA)
regex, delimiters, encapsulation (see regex objects)
regex, engine analogy 143-147
regex, vs. English 275
regex, frame of mind 6
regex, freeflowing design 277-281
regex, history 85-91
regex, library 76, 207
regex, longest-leftmost match 177-179
regex, longest-leftmost match, shortest-leftmost 183
regex, mechanics 241-242
regex, mechanics, NFA (see NFA)
regex, nomenclature 27
regex, operands 288-292
regex, overloading 291, 328
regex, overloading, inhibiting 292
regex, overloading, problems 344
regex, subexpression, defined 29
regex literal 288-292, 307
regex literal, inhibiting processing 292
regex literal, locking in 352
regex literal, parsing of 292
regex literal, processing 350
regex literal, regex objects 354
Regex (.NET), CompileToAssembly 427, 429
Regex (.NET), creating, options 413-415
Regex (.NET), Escape 427
Regex (.NET), GetGroupNames 421-422
Regex (.NET), GetGroupNumbers 421-422
Regex (.NET), GroupNameFromNumber 421-422
Regex (.NET), GroupNumberFromName 421-422
Regex (.NET), IsMatch 407, 415, 425
Regex (.NET), Match 96, 408, 410, 415, 425
Regex (.NET), Matches 416, 425
Regex (.NET), object, creating 96, 410, 413-415
Regex (.NET), object, exceptions 413
Regex (.NET), object, using 96, 415
Regex (.NET), Options 421
Regex (.NET), Replace 408-409, 417-418, 425
Regex (.NET), RightToLeft 421
Regex (.NET), Split 419-420, 425
Regex (.NET), ToString 421
Regex (.NET), Unescape 427
regex objects 303-306
regex objects, efficiency 353-354
regex objects, /g 354
regex objects, match modes 304-305
regex objects, /o 354
regex objects, in regex literal 354
regex objects, viewing 305-306
regex overloading 292
regex overloading, example 341-345
http://regex.info/ xxii, 7, 345, 358
RegexCompilationInfo 429
regex-directed matching 153
regex-directed matching, and backreferences 303
regex-directed matching, and greediness 162
Regex.Escape 135
RegexOptions, Compiled 236, 402, 404, 414, 421-422, 429
RegexOptions, ECMAScript 400, 402, 406-407, 415, 421
RegexOptions, ExplicitCapture 402, 414, 421
RegexOptions, IgnoreCase 96, 99, 402, 413, 421
RegexOptions, IgnorePatternWhitespace 99, 402, 413, 421
RegexOptions, Multiline 402, 413-414, 421
RegexOptions, None 415, 421
RegexOptions, RightToLeft 402, 405-406, 414, 420-421, 423-424
RegexOptions, Singleline 402, 414, 421
Regexp (Java package), comparative description 375
Regexp (Java package), speed 376
regsub 100
regular expression origin of term 85
Regular Expression Search Algorithm 85
regular sets 85
Reinhold, Mark xxii
removing whitespace 199-200
Replace (Regex object method) 417-418
replaceAll 387
replaceFirst() 387-388
reproductive organs 5
required character pre-check 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
re-search-forward 100
reset() 387
Result (Match object method) 423
RightToLeft (Regex property) 421-422
RightToLeft (.NET) 402, 405-406, 414, 420-421, 423-424
“The Role of Finite Automata in the Development of Modern Computing Theory” 85
Ruby, $ and ^ 111
Ruby, after-match data 136
Ruby, benchmarking 238
Ruby, \G 131
Ruby, line anchors 128
Ruby, mode modifiers 133
Ruby, version covered 91
Ruby, word boundaries 132
Rudkin, Kristine xxii
rule, earliest match wins 148-149
rule, standard quantifiers are greedy 151-153
rx 182
s/.../.../ 50, 318-321
\S 49, 56, 119
\p{S} 120
\s 49, 119
\s, introduction 47
\s, in Emacs 127
\s, in Perl 288
\s, in Perl, (?s) (see: dot-matches-all mode; mode modifier)
/s 134
Savarese, Daniel xxii
SawAmpersand 358
say what you mean 195, 274
SBOL 362
\p{Sc} 121-122
scalar context 294, 310, 312-316
scalar context, forcing 310
schaffkopf 33
scope lexical vs. dynamic 299
scripts 120-122, 288
search-and-replace, awk 99
search-and-replace, Java 387, 394
search-and-replace, .NET 408, 417-418
search-and-replace, Tcl 100
sed, after-match data 136
sed, dot 110
sed, history 87
sed, version covered 91
sed, word boundaries 132
\p{Separator} 120
server VM 234, 236, 375
Sethi, Ravi 180
shell 7
simple quantifier optimization 247-248
single quotes delimiter 292, 319
Singleline (.NET) 402, 414, 421
\p{Sk} 121
\p{Sm} 121
small quantifier equivalence 251-252
\p{So} 121
\p{Space_Separator} 121
\p{Spacing_Combining_Mark} 121
“special” 262-266
Spencer, Henry 88, 182-183, 243
split() java.util.regex 390
split ORO 394-396
split, with capturing parentheses, Java ORO 395
split, with capturing parentheses, .NET 403, 420
split, with capturing parentheses, Perl 326
split, chunk limit, Java ORO 395
split, chunk limit, java.util.regex 391
split, chunk limit, Perl 323
split, into characters 322
split, in Perl 321-326
split, trailing empty items 324
split, whitespace 325
Split (Regex object method) 419-420
standard formula for matching delimited text 196
star, introduced 18-20
star, backtracking 162
star, greedy 139
star, lazy 140
star, possessive 140
start() 385
start-of-string anchor optimization 245-246, 255-256, 315
stclass `list' 362
stock pricing example 51-52, 167-168
stock pricing example, with alternation 175
stock pricing example, with atomic grouping 170
stock pricing example, with possessive quantifier 169
Strict (Option) 409
strict pragma 295, 336, 345
String, matches() 384
String, replaceAll 387
String, replaceFirst() 388
String, split() 390
String, split(), string (also see line)
String, split(), double-quoted (see double-quoted string example)
String, initial string discrimination 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
String, vs. line 55
String, vs. line, match position (see pos)
String, vs. line, pos (see pos)
StringBuffer 388
strings, C# 102
strings, Emacs 100
strings, Java 102
strings, PHP 103
strings, Python 103-104
strings, as regex 101-105, 305
strings, Tcl 104
strings, VB.NET 102
stripping whitespace 199-200
study 359-360
study, when not to use 359
subexpression defined 29
substitute() 394
substitution, delimiter 319
substitution, s/.../.../ 50, 318-321
substring initial substring discrimination 244-246, 249, 251-252, 257-259, 332, 361
subtraction class set operations 124
Success, Group object method 424
Success, Match object method 421
Success, Match object method, Sun's regex package (see java.util.regex)
Success, Match object method, super-linear (see neverending match)
super-linear short-circuiting 250
\p{Symbol} 120
Synchronized Match object method 424
syntax class Emacs 127
System.currentTimeMillis() 236
System.Reflection 429
System.Text.RegularExpressions 407, 409
\t 49, 114-115
\t, introduced 44
tag matching 200-201
tag-team matching 130, 315
\p{Tamil} 122
Tcl, [:<:] 92
Tcl, flavor overview 91
Tcl, benchmarking 239
Tcl, dot 111-112
Tcl, hand-tweaking 243, 259
Tcl, line anchors 112, 128
Tcl, mode modifiers 133
Tcl, regex implementation 182
Tcl, regsub 100
Tcl, search-and-replace 100
Tcl, strings 104
Tcl, version covered 91
Tcl, word boundaries 132
temperature conversion example, in .NET 419
temperature conversion example, in Java 389
temperature conversion example, in Perl 37
temperature conversion example, Perl one-liner 283
temperature conversion example, Perl one-liner, terminators (see line terminators)
testing engine type 146-147
text-directed matching 153
text-directed matching, regex appearance 162
text-to-HTML example 67-77
\p{Thai} 120
theory of an NFA 180
There's more than one way to do it 349
this|that example 132, 138, 243, 245-246, 252, 255, 260-261
Thompson, Ken 85-86, 110
thread scheduling Java benchmarking 236
\p{Tibetan} 122
tied variables 299
time() 232
time of day 26
Time::HiRes 232, 358, 360
Time.new 238
Timer() 237
title case 109
\p{Titlecase_Letter} 121
TiVo 3
tokenizer building 130, 315
toothpicks scattered 100
tortilla 126
ToString, Group object method 424
ToString, Match object method 422
ToString, Regex object method 421
toString ORO 396
Traditional NFA testing for 146-147
trailing context 182
trailing context, optimizations 245-247
Trapszo, Kasia xxii
Tubby 264
typographical conventions xix
\u 116, 290, 400
\U 116
\U...\E 290
\U...\E, inhibiting 292
uc 290
U+C0B5 106
ucfirst 290
UCS-2 encoding 106
UCS-4 encoding 106
Ullman, Jeffrey 180
\p{Unassigned} 121, 123
\p{Unassigned}, in Perl 288
unconditional caching 350
underscore in \w history 89
Unescape 427
Unicode, overview 106-108
Unicode, block 122
Unicode, block, Java 380
Unicode, block, .NET 400
Unicode, block, Perl 288
Unicode, block, Perl, categories (see Unicode, properties)
Unicode, character, combining 107, 122, 125, 288
Unicode, code point, introduced 106
Unicode, code point, beyond U+FFFF 108
Unicode, code point, multiple 107
Unicode, code point, unassigned in block 122
Unicode, combining character 107, 122, 125, 288
Unicode, in Java 380
Unicode, line terminators 108-109, 111
Unicode, line terminators, in Java 382
Unicode, line terminators, in Java, loose matching (see case-insensitive mode)
Unicode, in .NET 401
Unicode, properties 119, 288
Unicode, properties, java.util.regex 380
Unicode, properties, list 120-121
Unicode, properties, \p{All} 123, 288
Unicode, properties, \p{Any} 123, 288
Unicode, properties, \p{Assigned} 123-124, 288
Unicode, properties, \p{Unassigned} 121, 123, 288
Unicode, script 120-122, 288
Unicode, support in Java 373
Unicode, Version 3.1 108, 380, 401
Unicode, Version 3.2 288
Unicode, whitespace and /x 288
UNICODE_CASE (Pattern flag) 380, 383
UnicodeData.txt 290
unicore 290
UNIX_LINES (Pattern flag) 380, 382
unmatch 152, 161, 163
unmatch, .* 165
unmatch, atomic grouping 171
unrolling the loop 261-276
unrolling the loop, example 270-271
unrolling the loop, general pattern 264
\p{Uppercase_Letter} 121
URL encoding 320
URL example 74-77, 201-204, 208, 260, 303-304, 306, 320
URL example, egrep 25
URL example, Java 209
URL example, plucking 205-208
use charnames 290
use Config 290, 299
use English 357
use overload 342
use re 361, 363
use re 'debug' 361, 363
use re 'eval' 337
use strict 295, 336, 345
use Time::HiRes 358, 360
use warnings 326, 363
username example 73, 76, 98
username example, plucking from text 71-73
username example, in a URL 74-77
using System.Text.RegularExpressions 410
UTF-16 encoding 106
UTF-8 encoding 106
\V 364
\v 114-115, 364
Value, Group object method 424
Value, Match object method 422
variable names example 24
variables, after match, pre-match copy 355
variables, binding 339
variables, fully qualified 295
variables, interpolation 344
variables, naughty 356
variables, tied 299
variables, tied, VB.NET (also see .NET)
variables, comments 99
variables, regex approach 96-97
variables, strings 102
variables, URL parsing example 204
verbatim strings 102
Version 7 regex 182
Version 8 regex 182
versions covered in this book 91
vertical tab 109
vertical tab, in Perl \s 288
vi after-match data 136
Vietnamese text processing 29
virtual machine 234-236, 375
Visual Studio .NET 428
VM 234, 236, 375
VM, warming up 235
void context 294
VT 109
\W 49, 119
$^W 297
\w 49, 65, 119
\w, in Emacs 127
\w, many different interpretations 93
\w, in Perl 288
Wall, Larry 88-90, 138, 363-364
warming up Java VM 235
warnings 296
warnings, temporarily turning off 297
warnings pragma 326, 363
while vs. foreach vs. if 320
whitespace, allowing optional 18
whitespace, removing 199-200
wildcards filename 4
Wilson, Dean xxii
Woodward, Josh xxii
word anchor mechanics of matching 150
word boundaries 131
word boundaries, \<...\>, egrep 15
word boundaries, introduced 15
word boundaries, in Java 373
word boundaries, many programs 132
word boundaries, mimicking 66, 132, 341-342
word boundaries, in Perl 132, 288
www.cpan.org 358
www.PeakWebhosting.com xxii
www.regex.info 358
\X 107, 125
\x 116, 400
\x, in Perl 286
\x, in Perl, (?x) (see: comments and free-spacing mode; mode modifier)
/x 134, 288
/x, introduced 72
/x, history 90
Xerces org.apache.xerces.utils.regex 372
-y old grep 86
¥ 122
Yahoo! xxi, 74, 130, 190, 205, 207, 258, 314
\z 111, 127-128, 316
\z, in Java 373
\z, optimization 246
\Z 111, 127-128
\Z, in Java 373
\Z, optimization 246
\p{Z} 119-120, 380, 400
Zawodny, Jeremy xxii, 258
ZIP code example 208-212
\p{Zl} 121
\p{Zp} 121
\p{Zs} 121