Introduction

• Welcome to the course!8

• Download the course files

• Why learn regular expressions?

• Motivating example4

• Course methodology

Basic Regular Expressions

• Rules for searching2

• Metacharacters4

• Quantifiers

• Greedy quantifiers

• Regular expressions in Python

• Exercise 1

• Exercise 1 solution3

• Match groups4

• Exercise 2

• Exercise 2 solution

• Character classes

• Find multiple matches

• Q&A

Basic Homework

• Homework instructions

• Homework 1 solution

• Additional quantifiers

• Homework 1 bonus

• Homework 2 solution

Intermission

• Can I ask you a quick favor?

Intermediate Regular Expressions

• Lazy quantifiers

• Alternatives

• Option: Ignore case3

• Substitution

• Anchors

• Option: Multiline

• Exercise 1

• Exercise 1 solution

• Option: Verbose2

• Exercise 2

• Exercise 2 solution

• Compile expressions

• Return match position

• Split strings2

• Useful features in regex101

• Final thoughts

Intermediate Homework

• Homework instructions

• Homework solution

Conclusion

• Can I ask you a quick favor?

• Recommended resources

• Tools that support regular expressions2

• Request your certificate of completion

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