The book presents the entire Java programming language and essential parts of the class libraries: the collection classes and the input-output classes.
SPLASH is a c++ class library that implements many of the Perl constructs and data types, including extensive regex regular expression pattern matching. For those not familiar with Perl, it is an excellent scripting language by Larry Wall and is available for most platforms. This Class library provides List, String, Regular Expression, and text manipulation handling capabilities based on those provided in Perl
