Regular Expressions Training: Introduction to Regular Expressions

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Course Number: 880
Duration: 1 day
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Regular Expressions Training Overview

Regular expressions are a cross-platform, cross-language set of tools for finding, extracting, and replacing text patterns. Regular expressions are supported by Java, .NET, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, and most other modern programming languages. In this course, attendees master the fundamentals of regular expressions in a fun, hands-on environment.

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Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/xml_html_js.htm.

Regular Expressions Training Prerequisites

No prior experience is presumed.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Regular Expressions training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 15 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

Regular Expressions Training Materials

All Regular Expressions training students receive a copy of Sam's Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Accelebrate will provide regular expression tools for use during the class.
If desired, we can customize the course to use your specific language or tools

Regular Expressions Training Objectives

To discover how to efficiently write complex regular expressions using a step-by-step process
To master using regular expressions to find, extract, and replace string patterns
To learn how to make your regular expressions even more flexible by embedding conditions

Regular Expressions Training Outline

Introducing Regular Expressions

Understanding the Need
How Regular Expressions Are Used
So What Exactly Is a Regular Expression?
Using Regular Expressions
Before You Get Started

Matching—Single Characters

Matching Literal Text
Matching Any Characters
Matching Special Characters
Matching Sets of Characters
Matching One of Several Characters
Using Character Set Ranges
"Anything But" Matching

Using Metacharacters

Escaping Revisited
Matching Whitespace Characters
Matching Specific Character Types
Using POSIX Character Classes

Repeating Matches

How Many Matches?
Using Intervals
Preventing Over Matching

Position Matching

Using Boundaries
Using Word Boundaries
Defining String Boundaries

Using Subexpressions

Understanding Subexpressions
Grouping with Subexpressions
Nesting Subexpressions

Using Backreferences

Understanding Backreferences
Matching with Backreferences
Performing Replace Operations

Looking Ahead and Behind.

Introducing Lookaround
Looking Ahead
Looking Behind
Combining Lookahead and Lookbehind
Negating Lookaround

Embedding Conditions

Why Embed Conditions?
Using Conditions

Conclusion