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

bite_size_js.tar.gz

RunNode12

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 it for this chapter! You officially have everything you need to mentally parse regular expressions! How does that feel? 
Just to summarize, here is what that means:


- You now know that a regular expression can have special characters, character classes, quantifiers, groups (some that capture matches and others that don’t), and flags.
- You understand how to create optional parts in your expression by using the ? character.
- You’ve (ideally) tested some examples using the [regex101.com](http://regex101.com) site.

However, we haven’t seen a single line of useful JavaScript! Worry not!  We’ll start tackling coding examples in the next chapter. So, if you’re eager to start with your JavaScripting, keep reading!


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