Working with Regular Expressions in C#

Quickly familiarize yourself with regular expressions in C#, and learn how to use .NET regular expressions to implement powerful text pattern matching.

Intermediate

13 Lessons

1h 27min

Certificate of Completion

Quickly familiarize yourself with regular expressions in C#, and learn how to use .NET regular expressions to implement powerful text pattern matching.

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Course Overview

Regular expressions provide an extremely powerful method for pattern matching with strings. They are very useful for parsing information like dates, phone numbers, or zip codes from important text files, such as code files, log files, spreadsheets, or documents. The course discusses everyday use cases of regular expressions, e.g., data validation, information extraction, pattern matching, and search and replace. This course will teach you the core concepts of pattern matching, character classes, special an...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Strings

Object Oriented Programming

What You'll Learn

An understanding of regular expressions and their applications

Hands-on experience with regular expressions using C# APIs

Working knowledge of RegexOptions, capture groups, and backreferences

The use of regular expressions through string operations

Familiarity with core concepts of character classes, special and meta characters, quantifiers, and conditional regular expressions

What You'll Learn

An understanding of regular expressions and their applications

Course Content

Introduction

Introduction to the Course

Introduction to Regular Expressions The String Class and Its Methods Regular Expressions APIs in C#

Building Blocks of .NET Regular Expressions

Formatting the Output of Regular Expressions Using Regular Expressions in C# with Groups Working with Capture Groups Working with Backreferences Applications of Regular Expressions

Advanced Concepts

Advanced Topics in Regular Expressions

Course Wrap Up

Course Summary Quiz on Regular Expressions in C#Regular Expression Tester

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