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    JavaScript Regular Expressions
    JavaScript Regular Expressions
    JavaScript Regular Expressions
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    JavaScript Regular Expressions

    By Loiane Groner and Gabriel Manricks

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    About This Book
    • Build and use patterns in JavaScript to solve real-world problems
    • Simplify complex validation processes by mastering the pattern language in Regex
    • A step-by-step guide along with a lot of real-world examples to manipulate text and crunch data, in URLs, paths, markup, and so on
    Who This Book Is For

    This book is ideal for JavaScript developers and programmers who work with any type of user entry data and want sharpen their skills to become experts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMay 28, 2015
    ISBN9781783282265
    JavaScript Regular Expressions
    Author

    Loiane Groner

    Loiane Groner lives in São Paulo, Brazil, and has over 8 years of software development experience. While at university, Loiane demonstrated great interest in IT. She worked as a Teaching Assistant for 2 years and 6 months in the Algorithms, Data Structures, and Computing Theory Department. She represented her university at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest - Brazilian Finals (South America Regionals) and also worked as Student Delegate of SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) for 2 years. She won a merit award in her senior year for being one of the top 3 students with the best GPAs in the Computer Science department, and she also graduated with honors.She has already in her career worked at multinational companies such as IBM. Her areas of expertise include Java SE and Java EE and also Sencha technologies (Ext JS and Sencha Touch). Nowadays, she is working as a Software Development Manager at a financial institution, where she manages overseas solutions. She also works as an independent Sencha consultant and coach.Loiane is also the author of Ext JS 4 First Look and Mastering Ext JS, both published by Packt.She is passionate about Sencha and Java, and she is the CampinasJUG (Campinas Java Users Group) leader and ESJUG (Espirito Santo Java Users Group) coordinator, both of which are Brazilian JUGs.Loiane also contributes to the software development community through her blogs: http://loianegroner.com (English) and http://loiane.com (Portuguese-BR), where she writes about her IT career, Ext JS, Sencha Touch, Spring Framework, and she also discusses general development notes and publishes screencasts.

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      JavaScript Regular Expressions - Loiane Groner

      Table of Contents

      JavaScript Regular Expressions

      Credits

      About the Authors

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

      Why subscribe?

      Free access for Packt account holders

      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting Started with Regex

      It's all about patterns

      Analyzing a phone number

      Analyzing a simple log file

      Analyzing an XML file

      Regex in JavaScript

      The RegExp constructor

      Using pattern flags

      Using the rgx.test method

      Using the rgx.exec method

      The string object and regular expressions

      Using the String.replace method

      Using the String.search method

      Using the String.match method

      Building our environment

      Handling a submitted form

      Resetting matches and errors

      Creating a regular expression

      Executing RegExp and extracting its matches

      Testing our application

      Summary

      2. The Basics

      Defining vague matchers in Regex

      Matching a wild card character

      Matching digits

      Matching alphanumeric chars

      Negating alphanumeric chars and digits

      Defining ranges in Regex

      Defining a range

      Matching the dash character

      Defining negated ranges

      Defining multipliers in Regex

      Matching one or more occurrences

      Matching zero or one occurrence

      Matching zero or more occurrences

      Defining custom quantifiers

      Matching n or more occurrences

      Matching n to m occurrences

      Matching alternated options

      Creating a Regex for a telephone number

      Summary

      3. Special Characters

      Nonvisual constraints

      Matching the beginning and end of an input

      Matching word boundaries

      Matching nonword boundaries

      Matching a whitespace character

      Defining nongreedy quantifiers

      Matching groups in Regex

      Grouping characters together to create a clause

      Capture and noncapture groups

      Matching non capture groups

      Matching lookahead groups

      Using a negative lookahead

      Summary

      4. Regex in Practice

      Regular expressions and form validation

      Setting up the form

      Validating fields

      Matching a complete name

      Understanding the complete name Regex

      Matching an e-mail with Regex

      Understanding the e-mail Regex

      Matching a Twitter name

      Understanding the twitter username Regex

      Matching passwords

      Matching URLs

      Understanding the URL Regex

      Manipulating data

      Using the String.replace method

      Matching a description field

      Understanding the description Regex

      Explaining a Markdown example

      Summary

      5. Node.js and Regex

      Setting up Node.js

      Getting started with our application

      Reading a file with Node.js

      The anatomy of an Apache log file

      Creating the Apache log Regex

      Creating a Regex for the time part

      Creating a Regex for the request information

      Creating a Regex for the status code and object size

      Creating a Regex for the referrer and the user agent

      Parsing each Apache log row

      Creating a JSON object for each row

      Display the JSON in a table

      Summary

      A. JavaScript Regex Cheat Sheet

      Character classes

      Literals

      Character sets

      Boundaries

      Grouping, alternation, and back reference

      Quantifiers

      JavaScript regular expressions methods

      Index

      JavaScript Regular Expressions

      JavaScript Regular Expressions

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      Credits

      Authors

      Loiane Groner

      Gabriel Manricks

      Reviewers

      Andrea Barisone

      Florian Bruniaux

      Robert K Casto

      Julio Freitas

      Juri Strumpflohner

      Commissioning Editor

      Kunal Parikh

      Acquisition Editor

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      Content Development Editor

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      Technical Editors

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      Copy Editor

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      Proofreaders

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      Indexer

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      About the Authors

      Loiane Groner has over 9 years of software development experience. In her university, she demonstrated a great deal of interest in IT. She worked as a teacher's assistant for 2.5 years for algorithms, data structures, and computing theory. She represented her university at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest – Brazilian Finals (South America Regionals), and she also worked as the student delegate of the SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) for 2 years. Loiane won a merit award in her senior year for being one of the top three students in her course. She had one of the highest GPAs in the computer science department, and also graduated with honors.

      She has already worked at multinational companies, such as IBM. Her areas of expertise include Java SE and Java EE and also Sencha technologies (such as Ext JS and Sencha Touch). Nowadays, Loiane is working as a software development manager at a financial institution where she manages overseas solutions. She also works as an independent Sencha consultant and coach.

      Loiane is also the author of Ext JS 4 First Look, Mastering Ext JS (first and second editions), Sencha Architect App Development, and Learning JavaScript Data Structure and Algorithms, all published by Packt Publishing.

      She is passionate about Sencha and Java, and she is the CampinasJUG (Campinas Java Users Group) leader and an ESJUG (Espirito Santo Java Users Group) coordinator, both of which are Brazilian JUGs.

      Loiane also contributes to the software development community through her blogs, which can be found at http://loianegroner.com (the English version) and http://loiane.com (the Portuguese-BR version), where she writes about IT careers, Ext JS, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, Spring Framework, Java, and general development notes and also publishes screencasts.

      If you want to keep in touch with her, you can find her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/loianegroner) and on Twitter (@loiane).

      I would like to thank my parents for educating, guiding, and advising me through all these years and for helping me become a better human being and professional. A very special thank you to my husband for being patient and supportive and for giving me encouragement throughout.

      I would like to thank Packt Publishing for this amazing opportunity to write books about the topics I really love! I'd like to thank all the people involved in the process of creating, reviewing, and publishing these books!

      I would also like to thank the readers of this book and the other books I have written for their support and feedback. Your feedback is very valuable in helping me improve as an author and a professional. Thank you very much!

      Gabriel Manricks is a full-stack software and web developer, and a writer. He is the CTO at CoinSimple and a staff writer at Nettuts+, where he enjoys learning as well as teaching others.

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