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This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular expression libraries.

This concise and easy-to-use reference puts a very powerful tool for manipulating text and data right at your fingertips. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution. Regular Expression Pocket Reference offers an introduction to regular expressions, pattern matching, metacharacters, modes and constructs, and then provides separate sections for each of the language APIs, with complete regex listings including:

• Supported metacharacters for each language API
• Regular expression classes and interfaces for Ruby, Java, .NET, and C#
• Regular expression operators for Perl 5.8
• Regular expression module objects and functions for Python
• Pattern-matching functions for PHP and the vi editor
• Pattern-matching methods and objects for JavaScript
• Unicode Support for each of the languages

With plenty of examples and other resources, Regular Expression Pocket Reference summarizes the complex rules for performing this critical text-processing function, and presents this often-confusing topic in a friendly and well-organized format. This guide makes an ideal on-the-job companion..
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Perl is a versatile, powerful programming language used in a variety of disciplines, ranging from system administration to web programming to database manipulation. One slogan of Perl is that it makes easy things easy and hard things possible. Intermediate Perl is about making the leap from the easy things to the hard ones.

Originally released in 2003 as Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules and revised and updated for Perl 5.8, this book offers a gentle but thorough introduction to intermediate programming in Perl. Written by the authors of the best-selling Learning Perl, it picks up where that book left off. Topics include:

• Packages and namespaces
• References and scoping
• Manipulating complex data structures
• Object-oriented programming
• Writing and using modules
• Testing Perl code
• Contributing to CPAN

Following the successful format of Learning Perl, we designed each chapter in the book to be small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with a series of exercises to help you practice what you've learned. To use the book, you just need to be familiar with the material in Learning Perl and have ambition to go further.

Perl is a different language to different people. It is a quick scripting tool for some, and a fully-featured object-oriented language for others. It is used for everything from performing quick global replacements on text files, to crunching huge, complex sets of scientific data that take weeks to process. Perl is what you make of it. But regardless of what you use Perl for, this book helps you do it more effectively, efficiently, and elegantly.

Intermediate Perl is about learning to use Perl as a programming language, and not just a scripting language. This is the book that turns the Perl dabbler into the Perl programmer.

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For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing sed, awk, and regular expressions allow programmers and system administrators to automate editing tasks that need to be performed on one or more files, to simplify the task of performing the same edits on multiple files, and to write conversion programs.

The "sed & awk Pocket Reference" is a companion volume to "sed & awk, Second Edition, Unix in a Nutshell, Third Edition," and "Effective awk Programming, Third Edition," This new edition has expanded coverage of gawk (GNU awk), and includes sections on:

An overview of sed and awk's command line syntax

Alphabetical summaries of commands, including nawk and gawk

Profiling with pgawk

Coprocesses and sockets with gawk

Internationalization with gawk

A listing of resources for sed and awk users

This small book is a handy reference guide to the information presented in the larger volumes. It presents a concise summary of regular expressions and pattern matching, and summaries of sed and awk.

Arnold Robbins, an Atlanta native now happily living in Israel, is a professional programmer and technical author and coauthor of various O'Reilly Unix titles. He has been working with Unix systems since 1980, and currently maintains gawk and its documentation..
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The most authoritative, cutting-edge book for operations management and supply chain management The book demands rigorous analysis on the part of students When the use of quantitative tools or formal modeling is indicated, it is only to perform the necessary analysis needed to inform and support a practical business solution..
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Does a polka-dotted sock match a striped sock? Young children will learn about matching, an important early math skill, as a lonely striped sock searches the house for its mate. They will may even be inspired to practice this skill in their own sock drawers!

Best Children's Science Books 1997 (Science Books and Films).
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Millions of people throughout the world turn to the Myers- Briggs Type Indicator™ to guide their career choices, improve their relationships, and resolve conflicts. Now, two experts in the field help readers discover:

The approach to spirituality that is most natural for them. Past spiritual experiences and what made them joyful, hollow, or even painful. New spiritual paths that add fullness to life even in the midst of difficulties. First published in 1998 by Hyperion, SoulTypes is a valuable tool for individual growth and strategic planning for those in leadership roles in congregations and other faith-based organizations..
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Sweep through all the world's history with this eye-opening trip. Read this connected and meaningful story that shows God winning over sin. Learn why the Bible is the most dependable tool for dating history. Teens can study this book as a survey course in world history or plug it anywhere into their social studies. They will gain a knowledge of history past and future, and also gain a biblical worldview to help with thinking about governments and current issues. Adults can skip the student assignments and read through this unique approach to history. Because it follows the Bible, it solves a number of mysteries that other history books cannot solve..
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For ten years and over two classic books, Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell have described how to analyze the characteristics of texts and select just-the-right book to use for guided reading instruction. Now, for the first time, all of their thinking and research has been updated and brought together into Leveled Books (K8) to form the ultimate guide to choosing and using books from kindergarten through middle school.Fountas and Pinnell take you through every aspect of leveled books, describing how to select and use them for different purposes in your literacy program and offering prototype descriptions of fiction and nonfiction books at each level. They share advice on:

• the role of leveled books in reading instruction
• analyzing the characteristics of fiction and nonfiction texts
• using benchmark books to assess instructional levels for guided reading
• selecting books for both guided and independent reading
• organizing high-quality classroom libraries
• acquiring books and writing proposals to fund classroom-library purchases
• creating a school book room.

In addition, Fountas and Pinnell explain the leveling process in detail so that you can tentatively level any appropriate book that you want to use in your instruction.

Best of all, Leveled Books (K8) is one half of a new duo of resources that will change how you look at leveled books. Its companion - www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com - is a searchable and frequently updated website that includes over 16,000 titles. With Leveled Books (K8) youll know how and why to choose books for your readers, and with www.FountasandPinnellLeveledBooks.com, youll have the ideal tool at your fingertips for finding appropriate books for guided reading.

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