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 marks the end of this chapter. Hopefully, by now, you’ve managed to reproduce the exercises shown above, and you’ve even solved the final crosswords. You’re now capable of thinking in regular expressions. That’s fantastic! The only missing step in this journey is to understand how others are using this great tool.

So, the next and final chapter (yes, we’re almost done here) will show you how regular expressions are being used in the wild. That should give you an idea of the power RegExps have. So let’s keep moving, shall we?

The Beginning of Regular Expressions

The Anatomy of Regular Expressions

The RegExp Object

Thinking in Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions in the Wild

Wrapping Up

Summary