SPUG: Re: Learning more about Regexes : Has MRE been revised yet?

[Brian Maddux]

I might also add that the perlre doc is quite good,
IMO. I didn't actually read it until I downloaded
IndigoPerl for my PC. It was a great help before I got
MRE. In fact, I still use perlre more than MRE....

Brian Maddux
ASIX, Inc.
--- Tim Maher/CONSULTIX <tim at consultix-inc.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 06:26:51AM -0400, Scott R.
> Godin wrote:
> > I've been seriously wanting to get the book, but
> considering all the 
> > posts I've seen around about how out of date it
> was, several months back 
> > when I was more active on usenet, I put it off. 
> > 
> > Does anyone know if any plans are in the works to
> revise and re-release 
> > it anytime THIS millennium? :) 
> 
> Jeffrey told me last year that O'Reilly had been
> bugging him about updating
> "Mastering Regular Expressions," and Jeff ("Japhy")
> Pinyan
> mentioned at TPC that Jeffrey told him he's now
> working on that.
> 
> So at some future point, I think we can expect to
> see a new
> edition appearing.  In the meantime, the book is
> still quite
> useful, so long as you ignore the frequent advice to
> avoid using
> $& to avoid slowing down your program (it no longer
> causes the big
> performance hit it used to).
> 
> -Tim
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