On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:00:51PM -0500, Joe Philipps wrote:
: On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:21:58PM -0500, Bruce A. Petro wrote:
:
: >Can you point me to some book or doc or man that says things in fairly
: >plain english as you did??? I'm finding a lot of docs on regexps that
: >are hard to translate when you are just starting out like me.
:
: "man 5 regexp" on HP-UX
: "man grep" or "man ed" on almost all systems
: The info. in info on a GNU system (e.g., GNU/Linux) is usually
: helpful, or failing that, the info within GNUEmacs (providing the info
: documentation for it was installed/kept on your system). By default,
: Ctrl-H i gets you into GNUEmacs info mode once in the editor itself.
There's a book on the VI editor by O'Reilly and Associations that has a
nice section on regular expressions, with explanations and examples that
are pretty novice-friendly as I've seen.
--
Eugene Lee
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