Visual Basic .NET Text Manipulation Handbook: String Handling and Regular Expressions

by Paul Wilton, Craig McQueen, François Liger

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.

350 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

Reviews

[Martijn Kok · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book contains 260 pages on the subject of text manipulation. All there is to know about Strings, StringBuilders, Internationalization and especially Regular Expressions.

The part about regular expressions was very useful in mastering regular expressions. It includes the more advanced topics different kinds of negative and positive assertions, non-backtracking and non-greedy regexs.