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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.

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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 focuses on efficient searching in text files.

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WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

Complete Knowledge about Regular Expressions

Content

24 Lessons7 Quizzes1 Assessment15 Challenges

Introduction to RegEx

4 Lessons

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

What is RegEx?

About RegEx

Category of Characters

Quiz

Characters

4 Lessons

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

Literal Character

Wildcard Character

Escaping Meta-Characters

Quiz

Character Set

3 Lessons

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

Character Set

Negative Character Set

Quiz

Repetition Character

3 Lessons

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

Repetition Character

Quantified Character

Quiz

Grouping and Alteration Character

3 Lessons

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.

Anchor Characters

Quiz

Concepts about RegEx

4 Lessons

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

Conclusion

1 Lessons

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

Conclusion

Assessment 1

Assessment

Certificate of Completion

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Course Author:

Yash Gupta

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