With the release of Visual Studio .NET, a great deal of attention has been placed on the Visual
Studio .NET languages, Visual Basic .NET, C# and Managed C++ (not to mention the
dozens of others under development by various companies). It might surprise you
to know that yet another language is built into Visual Studio - one that can be
used in conjunction with VB .NET, C# or any other .NET language. A language that is
terse to such a degree that the term “concise” does not come close to describing
its brevity of syntax. A language so cryptic that it can take hours to truly
understand a single line of code. [ Available in PDF Format for $15 / Download ]

Yet it is a language that can save you hours upon hours of time in any application that
involves text processing or data validation. It is a language that can perform complex data
validation tasks in a single line of code. It is a language that performs
sophisticated search and replace operations on strings. It is a language that
should be part of every programmer’s toolbox.

The language is the “Regular Expression Language” - a language designed to parse and manipulate
blocks of text. This ebook is intended to be a complete introduction to Regular
Expressions that can even be read and understood by programmers who have never
heard of them. It is also intended to help experienced Regular Expression
programmers come up to speed quickly on the .NET implementation of Regular
Expressions.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Basics
• Regular Expression Objects
• Advanced Regular Expressions
• Additional Topics
• What are State Machines and Why Should you Care?
• Conclusion