Working with Regular Expressions in C#

Gain insights into pattern matching with regular expressions in C#. Explore data validation, information extraction, and more using String and Regex APIs with practical examples.
13 Lessons
1h 27min
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Regular expressions provide an extremely powerful method for pattern matching with strings. They are very useful for parsing information like dates, phone numbers, or zip codes from important text files, such as code files, log files, spreadsheets, or documents. The course discusses everyday use cases of regular expressions, e.g., data validation, information extraction, pattern matching, and search and replace. This course will teach you the core concepts of pattern matching, character classes, special and meta characters, and quantifiers. You will also learn conditional regular expressions including lookahead and lookbehind assertions. You will also learn the APIs used in C# for regular expressions with hands-on code widgets. This course will teach you how to perform pattern matching with a regular expression using String and Regex APIs for the above-mentioned practical use cases in C#.
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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

An understanding of regular expressions and their applications
Hands-on experience with regular expressions using C# APIs
Working knowledge of RegexOptions, capture groups, and backreferences
The use of regular expressions through string operations
Familiarity with core concepts of character classes, special and meta characters, quantifiers, and conditional regular expressions
An understanding of regular expressions and their applications

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TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Strings

Object Oriented Programming

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