Regular Expressions for Programmers

Gain insights into regular expressions' utility for text manipulation. Learn about efficient searching and replacing commands to enhance productivity in daily programming tasks.

Beginner

24 Lessons

1h 40min

Certificate of Completion

Gain insights into regular expressions' utility for text manipulation. Learn about efficient searching and replacing commands to enhance productivity in daily programming tasks.

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This course includes

1 Assessment

28 Playgrounds

15 Challenges

7 Quizzes

This course includes

1 Assessment

28 Playgrounds

15 Challenges

7 Quizzes

Course Overview

Ever wondered how the search or replace button works? They are very useful commands. For beginners and professionals alike, we use these commands in our day-to-day work life, at least once a day. This is why I felt the need to build a course that could help you increase your knowledge and save time while working with strings or any sort of text. The objective of this course is to help you get a strong grip on regular expressions, or in shorthand, regex. Instead of writing repetitive tasks, it mainly focu...Show More

What You'll Learn

Complete Knowledge about Regular Expressions

What You'll Learn

Complete Knowledge about Regular Expressions

Course Content

Introduction to RegEx

Get familiar with RegEx, its categories, and powerful text pattern matching capabilities.

What is RegEx?

About RegEx

Category of Characters Quiz

Characters

Get started with literal, wildcard, and escaping meta-characters in regular expressions.

Literal Character Wildcard Character Escaping Meta-Characters Quiz

Character Set

Master the steps to create precise regex with character sets, including negatives.

Character Set Negative Character Set Quiz

Repetition Character

Break down complex ideas of repetition and quantified characters in regex for precise matching.

Repetition Character Quantified Character Quiz

Grouping and Alteration Character

Map out the steps for grouping and altering patterns in regular expressions.

Grouping Meta-Characters Alteration Meta-Characters Quiz

Anchor Character

2 Lessons

Simplify complex topics around using anchor characters for precise text pattern matching.

Concepts about RegEx

4 Lessons

Build on understanding the greedy, lazy natures, and backtracking in regular expressions.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

Step through mastering efficient, precise, and complex text parsing with regular expressions.

Assessment 1

Assessment

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