About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 149. Chapters: Control flow, Programming constructs, Regular expression, Macro, Closure, Class, Iteration, Precondition, Postcondition, Scope, Exception handling, Program counter, Indirection, Reserved word, Monitor, Continuation, List comprehension, Assignment, Exception handling syntax, Delimiter, Tail call, Eval, For loop, Foreach loop, Array slicing, Hooking, Generator, Setjmp.h, Reference, Here document, Namespace, Polymorphism, Event loop, Interface, Left recursion, Regular expression examples, While loop, Spinlock, Critical section, Block, Setcontext, COMEFROM, Semipredicate problem, Signal, Operator, Do while loop, Loop invariant, Brace notation, Microsoft-specific exception handling mechanisms, Advice, Append, Declaration, Index notation, Value, Statement, Hardware register, Type punning, Barton-Nackman trick, Tagged pointer, Branch, Monkey patch, Name binding, Load-link/store-conditional, Forward declaration, Comparison, Fiber, First-class object, Docstring, Status register, Conditional loop, Business object, Zahn's construct, Inner loop, Keyword, Tombstone, Range, Hazard pointer, User exit, Index register, J operator, Literal, Naming collision, Program status word, Active object, Stack register, Indirect branch, Loop counter, Path expression, Occurs check, Autoload, Overlapped I/O, Parameterized macro, Entry point, Exception guarantees, TypeParameter, Strong key, Join point, Friend class, Utility class, Engine, Metatable, Language construct, Phantom reference, Strong reference, Reserved identifier. Excerpt: In computing, a regular expression provides a concise and flexible means for "matching" (specifying and recognizing) strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Abbreviations for "regular expression" include "regex" and "regexp." The concept of regular expressions was first popu...
