{"id":218,"date":"2006-07-21T10:47:42","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T01:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-07-21\/218"},"modified":"2006-07-21T10:47:42","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T01:47:42","slug":"mastering-regular-expressions-third-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-07-21\/218","title":{"rendered":"Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"img_center\"><a href=\"\/i\/mre3cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/mre3cover.jpg\" width=\"381\" height=\"500\"\nborder=\"0\"\nid=\"imre3cover\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n\n<p>\n\nI've finally finished the writing and production of the <b>Third\nEdition<\/b> of my book, <a href=\"\/\"><b>Mastering Regular\nExpressions<\/b><\/a> (published by <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.oreilly.com\/catalog\/regex3\/\">O'Reilly Media<\/a>). <span class='nobr'>I'd been working<\/span> on it since the early fall, and finished the day before my travels\nstarted earlier this month.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nThis third edition is 58 pages longer than the second edition, and now\nreaches 542 pages in length. <span class='nobr'>The main changes<\/span> from the second edition are <span class='nobr'>a\nnew,<\/span> 48-page chapter on <a href=\"http:\/\/php.net\/\" class='quiet'>PHP<\/a>,\nand <span class='nobr'>a rewritten<\/span>\/expanded <a href=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\/\"\nclass='quiet'>Java<\/a> chapter taking into account the many\n<tt>java.util.regex<\/tt> changes between Java 1.4 and Java 1.5\/Java 1.6.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nI've not yet updated the <a href=\"\/\">book's web site<\/a>\nto reflect MRE3 changes, but I'll get around to it before the book hits the\nstores (which should be around the end of next month).\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I've finally finished the writing and production of the <b>Third Edition<\/b> of my book, <b>Mastering Regular Expressions<\/b> (published by O'Reilly Media). I'd been working on it since the early fall, and finished the day before my travels started earlier this month. <\/p><p> This third edition is 58 pages longer than the second edition, and now reaches 542 pages in length. The main changes from the second edition are a new, 48-page chapter on PHP, and a rewritten\/expanded Java chapter taking into account the many java.util.regex changes between Java 1.4 and Java 1.5\/Java 1.6. <\/p><p> I've not yet updated the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}