Books about Regular Expressions

• Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes by Ben Forta
• Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl
• Java Regular Expressions by Mehran Habibi
• Oracle Regular Expressions Pocket Reference by Jonathan Gennick & Peter Linsley
• Regular Expression Pocket Reference by Tony Stubblebine
• Regular Expression Recipes by Nathan Good
• Regular Expression Recipes for Windows Developers by Nathan Good

Regular Expression Reference

• Basic Regular Expression Syntax Reference. Characters, anchors, alternation and quantifiers.
• Advanced Regular Expression Syntax Reference. Grouping, modifiers and lookaround.
• Unicode-Related Regular Expression Syntax Reference. Regex tokens only supported by Unicode-based regular expression engines.
• Flavor-Specific Regular Expression Syntax Reference. Regex tokens unique to specific regex flavors.
• Regular Expression Flavor Comparison. Feature matrix of all regex flavors discussed on this website .
• Replacement Text Reference. Feature matrix of the search-and-replace tokens of all the tools and languages discussed on this website .

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