Appendix C — A Survival Guide to Regular Expressions

C.1 Objectives

• Basic of regular expressions
• Fixed matching and “globs” and relationship to regexes
• Base regular expressions versus stringi
• character classes
• Unicode character categories
• Lookaheads

C.2 Methods

Applicable methods for the objectives listed above.

C.3 Examples

Examples here.

C.4 Issues

Older variants: PCRE, versus GNU, versus stringi implementations.

Shortcut names versus Unicode categories.

C.5 Further Reading

Further reading here.

C.6 Exercises

Add some here.