Regular Expressions Cookbook
I have in my hand the book “Regular Expressions Cookbook”, by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan. Very well written and I would like it to be part of your library, if it is not already there.
I think that reading on many programming languages simultaneously can be confusing for readers. I would have liked to see the book written for only one language. That way, the reader could have focused only on one language at a time.
I found a typo on page 275. The excerpts
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16 digits, starting with 6011, or 15 digits starting with 5.
I think that this should be replaced with
16 digits, starting with 6011, or 16 digits starting with 65.
I think that the reular expression itself is correct.
Hope that this error stands corrected in next edition of the book.
Vikas Shukla is currently working as Senior Design Engineer at BL Healthcare. He has degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IT-BHU, Varanasi, India. Mr. Shukla has over 15 years of experience in design of microprocessor-based systems. His expertise includes signal integrity, architecture and design of remote patient monitoring systems. The views expressed are his own.
Thanks for the bug report, Vikas.
I’ll make sure the typo gets fixed if O’Reilly does another printing or edition of the book.
How soon will you update your blog? I’m interested in reading some more information on this issue.
I had a chance to get deeper into the book and I found that it has great contents. We should not worry about the typo.
Steve, I think you are a great writer. And it is a delight to read the book.