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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
| Printed |
Page 13
First paragraph under "Unicode Support" heading |
"Unicode requires more than one byte to represent a character."
This paragraph confuses Unicode with DBCS, a pretty common misunderstanding (one Microsoft continues to make). See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html for clarification.
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brianiac |
| Printed |
Page 16
top entry |
the HTTP URL:
/(https?):\/\/([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9})(:\d{1,4})?([-\w\/#~:.?+=&%@~]*)/
returns this error: Unbalanced parenthesis
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dfolland |
"Regular expressions have proven so popular that they have been incorporated into most if not all major programming languages and editors, and even at least one Web server. But each one implements regular expressions in its own way — which is reason enough for programmers to appreciate the latest edition of Regular Expression Pocket Reference by Tony Stubblebine."
--Michael J. Ross, Web Developer, Slashdot.org
