Learning Regular Expressions

Learning Regular Expressions

English | MP4 | AVC 1280×720 | AAC 48KHz 2ch | 3h 18m | 594 MB

Regular expressions can speed up tedious tasks and streamline your workflow. They are an indispensable tool with programming languages like Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby, C#, and more. In this course, instructor Kevin Skoglund goes over the definitions, details, and basic processes to start using regular expressions. Kevin explains what regular expressions are, what types are available in different programming languages, and what notations you should use. He dives into characters and character sets, then goes over how repetition is used with metacharacters, how it can be quantified, and more. He discusses grouping, alternation, and anchors. Kevin shows you how to capture content and create a backreference to the captured data. Plus, he covers positive and negative lookahead assertions, lookbehind assertions, and multiple lookaround assertions.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Write text matching patterns

Get Started with Regular Expressions
2 What are regular expressions
3 Choose a regular expression engine
4 Notation conventions and modes

Characters
5 Literal characters
6 Metacharacters
7 The wildcard metacharacter
8 Escaping metacharacters
9 Other special characters
10 Challenge Characters
11 Solution Characters

Character Sets
12 Define a character set
13 Character ranges
14 Negative character sets
15 Metacharacters inside characters sets
16 Shorthand character sets
17 Challenge Character sets
18 Solution Character sets

Repetition
19 Repetition metacharacters
20 Quantified repetition
21 Greedy expressions
22 Lazy expressions
23 Challenge Repetition
24 Solution Repetition

Grouping and Alternation
25 Grouping metacharacters
26 Alternation metacharacters
27 Efficiency when using alternation
28 Challenge Grouping and alternation
29 Solution Grouping and alternation

Anchors
30 Start and end anchors
31 Line breaks and multiline mode
32 Word boundaries
33 Challenge Anchors
34 Solution Anchors

Capturing Groups and Backreferences
35 Captures and backreferences
36 Backreferences to optional expressions
37 Find and replace using backreferences
38 Non-capturing group expressions
39 Challenge Backreferences
40 Solution Backreferences

Lookaround Assertions
41 Positive lookahead assertions
42 Negative lookahead assertions
43 Lookbehind assertions
44 Multiple lookaround assertions
45 Challenge Lookaround assertions
46 Solution Lookaround assertions

Conclusion
47 Next steps

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