This one-day tutorial explores the advanced and powerful features of Perl regular expressions, especially those added to Perl in the past few years (in Perl 5.10 through 5.18).
Topic covered include:
- New and improved named character classes
- Set operations on character sets
- The 13 regex modifiers
- The 're' pragma
- Debugging regexes
- Embedding code in Perl regexes
- Optimizing matching performance with backtracking control
- Other important efficiency considerations
- Named captures
- Regex decomposition via independent subpatterns
- Regex recursion via independent subpatterns
- Variable-length contextual look-behinds
- Smart-matching
1 day seminar
Perl programmers from all disciplines who are already familiar with the basics of Perl regular expressions