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Dewey Decimal Number: 005.268 EAN: 9781861007308 Edition: 1st ISBN: 1861007302 Label: Peer Information Inc. Manufacturer: Peer Information Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 350 Publication Date: 2002-06 Publisher: Peer Information Inc. Studio: Peer Information Inc. Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The .NET Framework brings a variety of string manipulation features to the VB language, and some of these, namely regular expressions and the StringBuilder class, are something VB 6 developers may not have seen before. This book teaches you how to manipulate text using these string matching, manipulation, and replacement classes. Issues such as Localization and data conversion will also be investigated. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Eh... Not so good.This is a very wordy book for a topic that should probably have a more reference style coverage. It focuses a little bit on how to use the matching functions in .net, and a little bit on how to use regular expressions. The .net stuff is really easy to get on your own, and the regular expressions stuff is so glossy that its not that useful. I don't like having this book on my shelf since I can never find anything useful at a glance, but its not worth anything to sell. ... Read More Rating:  - Excellent in covering the subject, could be a little more coherenetThis is a great book. Period. Regular Expressions is a chaotic subject to start, I couldn't find usefull help on MSDN. This book does a great job bridging the gap. I'm still a novice in Regular Expressions (it's too spagetti-ish for a business software developer), but this book helped me implement whatever lightweight logic I needed. Then why 4 stars, you probably ask. Because I found it to be a little incoherent to pass the 5 star benchmark. The author is a little too all-over-the-place ... Read More Rating: - NoteThis book was sold by Wrox to APress. The code download is available directly from APress at http://support.apress.com. Rating:  - Great ReferenceUnless you are writing games for a living, YOU WILL be spending a lot of time manipulating text. I have a true love/hate relationship with using regular expressions but there is no argument about the sheer power they bring to a developer's workbench. This guide is very concise and is a `must have' reference book. Well organized and written. I don't know what's happening with it's publication. I got it from Amazon from a re-seller and I'm not quite sure if it's still being printed. I know ... Read More Rating: - Gary ChamberlainWow! Quite impressed! I have been programming in VB, C and Java for years. This book is a concise explanation of strings with great history for perspective and detail about .NET implementation. This book reads very well and has great code examples. I suppose someone that doesn't know anything about programming shouldn't be trying to read a book about string encoding and regular expressions in the first place. This is not an introductoryto VB.net book (thank god!) If you are an ... Read More 
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