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Programming Fundamentals

Regular Expressions Workshop

Two days to reading and writing patterns

A two-day classroom workshop on MDN's regular expressions guide: simple patterns, special characters, character classes, quantifiers, assertions, groups and backreferences, and flags. You practise on real text — phone numbers, emails and log lines. This workshop prepares for no exam.

6Modules
IntermediateLevel
2 daysDuration
COURSE THUMBNAIL

What you will be able to do

Read an unfamiliar pattern
Write a pattern to validate input
Search and replace with groups

Course outline

01
Creating a regular expression; simple patterns
02
Special characters and escaping; character classes
03
Quantifiers
04
Assertions
05
Groups and backreferences
06
Using regular expressions in JavaScript; flags; verifying input

Tools you will use

JavaScriptVisual Studio CodeBrowser developer tools

What you need

Basic programming in any language

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