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

This is a very basic search and replace use case for regular expressions. You might actually find yourself doing it often in your IDE of choice. However, the idea of this exercise is to write a JavaScript function that will perform these two actions all at once.

Remember that this is not about creating a JavaScript array that you can later use. For that, we could simply call the *split* method for our input string. This is about parsing a text file and writing the JavaScript code required to include this code into an array if you so want.

# Output 

Simply put, the output of our function will be code, not an actual array. In other words:

Challenge yourself and try writing a coding solution to the problem of turning a list of phrases into an array of strings. 

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: Turning a List of Phrases Into an Array of Strings