Contents

• The Standard Documentation
• Why Use Regular Expressions?
• A Perl 'grep'
• Basic Matches
• Building a Character Class
• Predefined Character Classes
• Matching Multiple Times
• Matching Multiple Times
• Capturing with ( ... )
• More Capturing
• More Than One Way To Do It
• Greed Is Not (Always) Good
• Alternatives
• Anchoring the Match
• Extended Regular Expressions (/x)
• Building From Parts
• Evaluating Expressions (/e)
• The End