JavaZone 2011 - Regex - The future programming
Join us on a journey that lands in advanced regex in Java. We start in the 1940s AI research, passing the 1970's Unix pioneers, and soon end up in pattern matching of text in modern programming languages like Java.
Regex is the often forgotten super tool, that you can benefit from every day -- on the command line, in your code editor and in your programs.
This introduction will teach you both the three compulsory operators and some more advanced concepts like lookaroands.
Staffan Nöteberg
Staffan Nöteberg is the author of the popular productivity book Pomodoro Technique Illustrated. He spent the recent decades as a freelance software developer, he's an internationally acclaimed conference speaker, and he also helped several companies to start with agile and lean. He lives in Stockholm and Istanbul.
Staffan had a very personal Regex article published in the February 2011 issue of Pragmatic Programmers monthly magazine PragPub:
http://pragprog.com/magazines/2011-02/de-morgan-to-the-rescue