When Good Regular Expressions Go Bad

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <000701bf0bb9$def95240$322d153f at tim>,
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>Error detection and recovery is a Real Pain even with a Real Parser; a
>mechanical trick like "report rightmost progress" isn't going to turn
>the infinitely feebler regexp gimmick into a solution.

Okay, okay, you've mostly convinced me.  Now, here's the hard part: got
any recommendations for a parsing book similar to the O'Reilly Regex
book?  (By "similar", I mean a good combined tutorial/reference that's
aimed at the ignorant but generally well-educated techie.  Two or three
books that combine to that goal would be fine.)
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