If you need to process text, this is a great book!

This book is not for everyone, but for "text processing", I know of nothing else that comes close; this book merits careful study. Note that "text processing" would include many web applications -- http is a text driven protocol. Do not be put off by the first chapter! It is the most abstract of any book I have read in decades. As the book says, you can skip it if it is a problem for you. As an illustration of how good this book is, I am now using regular expressions (selectively), and this was only possible with the help if this book! (If you do not even know what regular expressions are, you have not completed Text Processing 1.01.)

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• If you need to process text, this is a great book!