JavaScript Regular Expressions in Detail

INTERACTIVE COURSE

JavaScript Regular Expressions in Detail

Beginner

39 Lessons

3h

Certificate of Completion

JavaScript Regular Expressions in Detail

14 Playgrounds

27 Illustrations

Course Overview

Regular Expressions, also known as Regex, come in handy in a multitude of text processing scenarios. Regex defines a search pattern using symbols and allows you to find matches within strings. The applications of this span from software engineering to data science and beyond. In this course, you will begin with an introduction to regex, its history, and various types of regular expressions. You will then learn how to create your own regular expressions using various techniques and special characters. In ...Show More

Course Content

1

The Beginning of Regular Expressions

Introduction Testing the Expressions Coding Standards On With the Show: The Birth of Regular Expressions Types of Regular Expressions Quiz on the Introduction to Regular Expressions

2

The Anatomy of Regular Expressions

Defining a Regular Expression

What’s Inside a Regular Expression?Special Characters: Character Classes Special Characters: Quantifiers Special Characters: Capturing and Non-Capturing Groups Special Characters: Matching the Protocol and Hostname Special Characters: Matching the URL and Non-Capturing Groups Flags Exercise: A Simple Interpreter Solution Review: A Simple Interpreter Summary Quiz on the Anatomy of Regular Expressions

3

The RegExp Object

Introduction to the RegExp Object Index of the Last Match The exec Method The Other Methods Summary Quiz on the RegExp Object

4

Thinking in Regular Expressions

Introduction Exercise: Turning a List of Phrases Into an Array of Strings Solution: Turning a List of Phrases Into an Array of Strings Dynamic Regular Expressions Parsing Dates Exercise: A Regular Expression Crosswords Solution: A Regular Expression Crosswords Summary

5

Regular Expressions in the Wild

Password Pattern Matching Checking the Expression Email Pattern Matching Checking the Expression Complex Character Replacement Capturing Variable Names Alone

6

Wrapping Up

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