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Become a Regex Superhero

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Introduction

Welcome to the course!8

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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

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