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

# Problem statement 

For the last exercise, we're going to take a page from the [regexcrossword.com](https://regexcrossword.com/) book and give you a crossword to solve.

The *fun* part of this crossword? All clues will be regular expressions! That’s right, this is the ultimate exercise to help you make the switch!

As you’ll see in a minute, there are many ways to solve the exercise, but if you want to get some extra *virtual credit*, we’ve hidden a message in the solution. If you want to go that extra mile, try to pick up on the clues we’ve left as part of the clues, and you’ll see what we mean. ***Wink***, ***wink***, ***nudge***, ***nudge***.





Get ready to solve a crossword using regular expressions in this lesson! 

The Beginning of Regular Expressions

The Anatomy of Regular Expressions

The RegExp Object

Thinking in Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions in the Wild

Wrapping Up

Exercise: A Regular Expression Crosswords

Problem statement