Learn all the fundamentals of using regular expressions (regexes) to match patterns in programming. The course covers character sets, quantifiers, metacharacters, character classes, groups, lookahead & lookbehind assertions, and more. The teaching method includes guided exercises, practice exercises, and a detailed video timeline. This course is intended for individuals interested in mastering regular expressions for programming purposes.
Overview
Syllabus
- Video overview & topics covered
- Basic regex syntax building up an intuition
- Character Sets Overview [A-Za-z0-9]
- Quantifiers Guide *, +, ?, {3,5}
- Guided Exercise: Find all words that don't use vowels
- Helpful cheat sheet to remember regex syntax in the real-world
- Matching words/patterns of a specific length {3,5}
- OR operator overview
- Guided Exercise: Match valid sentences starts with capital letter, ends with period
- Character classes overview \w, \b, \d, \s
- Escaping Characters
- Practice Exercise #1: Write a regular expression to match meme text format
- Practice Exercise #2: Write a regular expression to match a specific date format
- Groups overview
- Lookahead & Lookbehind Assertions
- Practice Exercise #3: Detect if same word pops up multiple times in a sentence
- Practice Exercise #4: Password matching with rules
- Some final recommendations! additional practice, chatgpt, etc.
Taught by
Keith Galli
