This may be of interest, it's not cheap though.
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From: Jane Morrison <office@???>
To: announce@???
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 10:36:13 +0100
Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG & O'Reilly - Tutorial - Understanding
Regular Expressions (properly) - 11/08/10 - London
UKUUG & O'Reilly announces:
Understanding Regular Expressions (properly) - Tutor: Damian Conway
Wednesday 11th August 2010 - London
This one day tutorial will introduce beginner and intermediate Perl
programmers to the full functionality of Perl's regular expressions.
The day focuses on the pattern-matching features in Perl 5.6 and 5.8. The
morning session explores the principles and mechanisms underlying all Perl
regular expressions. You will see how the highly compact syntax of Perl
patterns controls a built-in pattern-matching "engine" and learn how to design
and construct Perl regexes to drive that engine efficiently. We will also look
at the four principal uses of regexes in Perl, discussing a number of uniquely
Perlish regex idioms. By lunch time, Perl's regexes will no longer seem like a
mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in line-noise.
The afternoon session will look at the more advanced and powerful features of
Perl regular expressions such as code embedding, user-defined assertions, regex
recursion, and backtracking control. These high-end features are not covered
in most Perl textbooks or classes, yet understanding and being able to apply
them is essential when dealing with large, real world data sets. During class
we will work through several everyday, yet challenging, problems in
information processing and see how the Perl's regular expression mechanism can
be tamed and harnessed to solve them. By the end of the day attendees should
have the full power of Perl's regular expression at their command.
Who should attend: Perl programmers from all disciplines who are familiar with
the basics of Perl's control flow, string handling and simple data structures
(scalars, arrays, hashes).
See
http://www.ukuug.org/events/Regexes
for more information and booking form
This event is organised by: UKUUG Ltd., UKUUG is the UK's Open Systems User
Group, for people who care about open IT standards and the systems that
implement them. UKUUG promotes education and understanding through its
newsletter, regular briefings and conferences. It is independent of any
industry groupings and not-for-profit. It values intelligence, thoughtfulness
and long-term thinking rather than immediacy and froth.
O'Reilly –
www.oreilly.com – publishers of the iconic 'animal books' spreads
the knowledge of innovators through its books & services. The company has a
long term history of advocacy, meme-making & evangelism.
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Tel: 01763 273475
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