[book] Review of Mastering Regular Expressions -- Jeffrey E.F. Friedl

The best way to use this book is to do the following:
Go through the tutorial on perl given at
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html

Make sure that u have understood the last part of the tutorial (String
matching && Substitution and translation).

Using the above knowledge start reading this book..
Only chapters 1, 2 3 and 7 are the most interesting (though a bit verbose).
th eonly point of reading this book for me was to get more examples of using
regular expressions.
Almost all meta-charaters used in regular expressions are covered in the
on-line tutorial mentioned above. Hence except the examples this book does
not serve my purpose.

I was able to get this whole logging system working after reading about
regular expression in perk fronm this book. Also it mentions another great
tool *egrep* for searching through files.

I have a softcopy of the book.

Regards
Shashank