[Ruby] regex question

[Neil Moomey]

I like the O'Reilly book "Mastering Regular Expressions" but it's not the
best quick reference book.  Regular expressions are the same with all
languages so don't be put off if it's not a Ruby book.

Neil

On 2/12/07, shaners becker <veganstraightedge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i have two questions about regexs:
>
> 1. what's a good starting resource for learning regex? someone told
> me about some ajaxy site that teaches the beginning in and outs of
> regex. anyone know of that?
>
> 2. just in textmate, i'm trying to do a find and replace that needs a
> regex. its an xml file and i want to remove all of one type of tag
> and its contents. say the tag is "book":
>
> <book>moby dick</book>
>
> how do i say find all: <book>...anything here...</book>?
>
> thanks
> shaners
>
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