Gain insights into pattern matching with regular expressions in C#. Explore data validation, information extraction, and more using String and Regex APIs with practical examples.

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 and meta characters, and quantifiers. You will also learn conditional regular expressions including lookahead and lookbehind assertions. You will also learn the APIs used in C# for regular expressions with hands-on code widgets. 

This course will teach you how to perform pattern matching with a regular expression using String and Regex APIs for the above-mentioned practical use cases in C#.

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Working with Regular Expressions in C#

Which of the following options represents a simple character class?

Which of the following options represents a simple character class?

Which of the following options represents a character range?

Which of the following options represents a character range?

Which of the following options represents a character? 

Which of the following options represents a character?

Which of the following options below represent a quantifier for zero or one occurrence?

Which of the following options below represent a quantifier for zero or one occurrence?

In regular expressions, which of the symbols below is used as an `OR` operator?

In regular expressions, which of the symbols below is used as an <code>OR</code> operator?

Which of the quantifiers below represents exactly 5 occurrences?

Which of the quantifiers below represents exactly 5 occurrences?

Which of the options below represents a predefined class for word boundary? 

Which of the options below represents a predefined class for word boundary?

Which of the quantifiers below represents between 2 and 4 occurrences?

Which of the quantifiers below represents between 2 and 4 occurrences?

Regular Expressions APIs are located in which of the following namespaces?

Regular Expressions APIs are located in which of the following namespaces?


Which class defines the constants corresponding to the options for regular expression pattern matching?

Which class defines the constants corresponding to the options for regular expression pattern matching?

Questions

Questions

Test your understanding by taking this quiz on regular expressions.

Introduction

Building Blocks of .NET Regular Expressions

Advanced Concepts

Course Wrap Up

Quiz on Regular Expressions in C#