Explore JavaScript regular expressions: learn about regex history, create patterns with special characters, parse data, and match passwords/emails, gaining comprehensive text processing skills.

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Regular Expressions, also known as Regex, come in handy in a multitude of text processing scenarios. Regex defines a search pattern using symbols and allows you to find matches within strings. The applications of this span from software engineering to data science and beyond.

In this course, you will begin with an introduction to regex, its history, and various types of regular expressions. 

You will then learn how to create your own regular expressions using various techniques and special characters. In the latter half of the course, you will explore RegExp Objects, how to parse data, turn phrases into an array of strings, and lastly password and email pattern matching.

By the end of this course, you will be a regular expressions expert.

JavaScript Regular Expressions in Detail

Throughout the course, code will be shared. After all, we’re trying to be practical here.


# Coding conventions

To make sure we’re all on the same page, here are some of the *relevant* coding standards we tend to use for our code samples:

- Everything will be ES6 compatible.

- We will not use TypeScript or any other superset of JavaScript. All code shared here will be pure JavaScript.


- Semicolons will not be used unless absolutely required.

- Code blocks will start in the same line and end on a new one. 






Get familiar with the coding standards used throughout the course.


The Beginning of Regular Expressions

The Anatomy of Regular Expressions

The RegExp Object

Thinking in Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions in the Wild

Wrapping Up

Coding Standards