Regular Expression Fundamentals
Pluralsight
Course Summary
This course will teach you about the power of regular expressions and show you how to build good and performant regex, while avoiding all the pitfalls.
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Course Description
No matter whether you are a sys admin, develop in .NET, C, PHP, Javascript, Ruby, Python, or even HTML5, or earn your living querying databases, knowing how to read and write Regular Expressions is an essential skill for any IT professional. While a lot of people consider regexes to be black magic, used appropriately they're an awesome power-tool in your tool-belt. This course will take you from the basics of what regular expressions are and why they are useful, through the syntax of regular expressions, guide you past the common pitfalls and teach you how to optimize your regexes for effectiveness, performance, and maintainability.
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Course Syllabus
Regular Expressions Fundamentals- 10m 42s
—Introduction to Regular Expressions Fundamentals 0m 57s
—What Are Regular Expressions? And Why Are They Useful to You? 2m 29s
—A Brief History 3m 48s
—How It Works 3m 27sBuilding Your First Regex- 9m 37s
—Building Your First Regex 9m 37sSyntax in Detail- 47m 4sShortcodes, Modifiers, and Delimiters- 25m 48s
