The Puzzling Quirks of Regular Expressions

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Rights of (Wo)Man
  3. Credits
  4. Preface
  5. Quantifiers and Special Sub-Patterns
    1. Wildcard Scope
    2. Words and Sequences
    3. Endpoint Classes
    4. A Configuration Format
    5. The Human Genome
  6. Pitfalls and Sand in the Gears
    1. Catastrophic Backtracking
    2. Playing Dominoes
    3. Advanced Dominoes
    4. Sensor Art
  7. Creating Functions using Regexen
    1. Reimplementing str.count()
    2. Reimplementing str.count() (stricter)
    3. Finding a Name for a Function
    4. Playing Poker (Part 1)
    5. Playing Poker (Part 2)
    6. Playing Poker (Part 3)
    7. Playing Poker (Part 4)
    8. Playing Poker (Part 5)
  8. Easy, Difficult, and Impossible Tasks
    1. Identifying Equal Counts
    2. Matching Before Duplicate Words
    3. Testing an IPv4 Address
    4. Matching a Numeric Sequence
    5. Matching the Fibonacci Sequence
    6. Matching the Prime Numbers
    7. Matching Relative Prime Numbers
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Credits

Cover image: “Alien DNA” by Sven Geier, 2015. Used by permission.

Back cover photo by Mary Ann Sushinsky, 2018. Used by permission.

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Leo Reynolds (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0): joker-48067975746

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Samuel MacGregor Liddel Mathews, “The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King” (1904, Public Domain): N_A_B_E_R_I_U_S

Stuck in the Middle with You, by Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan (Stealer Wheels), 1973:

Clowns to the left of me! / Jokers to the right! / Here I am stuck in the middle with you.