From: Stephen Potter Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 17:37:37 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Mention the Regular Expressions book X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7dd178533182fc85a734d7633d0a938b5d1c853a;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Mention the Regular Expressions book | Could somebody please add Jfrield's Mastering Regeular Expressions to | perlbook.pod, and also to a SEE ALSO in perlre.pod? p5p-msgid: 199705071548.KAA05924@psa.pencom.com private-msgid: 199705071737.MAA18799@psa.pencom.com --- diff --git a/pod/perlbook.pod b/pod/perlbook.pod index f52046b..66320d2 100644 --- a/pod/perlbook.pod +++ b/pod/perlbook.pod @@ -15,7 +15,13 @@ nearly all of Perl, while I is a tutorial that covers the most frequently used subset of the language. You might also check out the very handy, inexpensive, and compact I, especially when the thought of lugging the 676-page Camel -around doesn't make much sense. +around doesn't make much sense. I, by +Jeffrey Friedl, is a reference work that covers the art and +implementation +of regular expressions in various languages including Perl. + + Mastering Regular Expressions (the Hip Owl Book): + ISBN 1-56592-257-3 (English) Programming Perl, Second Edition (the Camel Book): ISBN 1-56592-149-6 (English) diff --git a/pod/perlre.pod b/pod/perlre.pod index ed9c533..2b24379 100644 --- a/pod/perlre.pod +++ b/pod/perlre.pod @@ -573,3 +573,7 @@ You can't disambiguate that by saying C<\{1}000>, whereas you can fix it with C<${1}000>. Basically, the operation of interpolation should not be confused with the operation of matching a backreference. Certainly they mean two different things on the I side of the C. + +=head2 SEE ALSO + +"Mastering Regular Expressions" (see L) by Jeffrey Friedl.