This is a chart I usually run to when I start cussing perl ;) Its not by me, though I did add a few notes about about what I saw missing. Feel free to save it and modify the appearance. Its pretty ugly, but it does the job. Can't promise it'll be up @ geocities forever so best bet is to save it. And I can not locate the original source in the bookmarks.
[geocities.com...]
This covers some parts in better detail without being too far over the crowds' head.
[english.uga.edu...]
Tom Christiansen on Irregular Expressions
[english.uga.edu...]
Has Java Applet to test Regexs , not a guide really but interesting I guess.
[english.uga.edu...]
And as far as finding more on your own. Try softpanorama...
[softpanorama.org...]
and google as the usual suspects.
HTH
later