Re: Need Regex Tutorial

[david@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd)]

Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> writes:

> My last postings have indicate to me that I need to roll up my sleeves
> and learn regex from the ground up.
>
> 1)Info on my GNU emacs *does not* show anything about regular
>   expressions. Info on my XEmacs does and it is not sufficient for me.
>
>   I would appreciate pointers to online docs on regex, since
>   my emacs does appear not have them.
>
> 2)I'm an old dog, but I *can* learn new tricks if I have examples.
>   *lots* of examples, starting with the most basic. I can work from the
>   Fiedl book, but seeing some basic emacs examples will help me to
>   reconcile the differences between emacs regex (or as Friedl calls 'em -
>   'scattered toothpicks') and "classic" approaches 
>  
>   Pointers to examples welcome.
>
>   thanks
>   tim
>
> -- 
> Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
>       http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com


I hope someone mentioned 'regexp-builder', which lets you create regular
expressions from within emacs and watch how they work.