Red Hat Developer: Regex how-to: Quantifiers, pattern collections, and word boundaries. “Filtering and searching text with regular expressions is an important skill for every developer. Regular expressions can be tricky to master. To work with them effectively, you need a detailed understanding of their symbols and syntax. Fortunately, learning to work with regular expressions can be incremental. You don’t need to learn everything all at once to do useful work. Rather, you can start with the basics and then move into more complex topics while developing your understanding and using what you know as you go along.”
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Digital Inspiration: How to Find and Replace Text in Google Docs with RegEx Search Patterns
Digital Inspiration: How to Find and Replace Text in Google Docs with RegEx Search Patterns. “It is easy to search and replace text in Google Documents with the DocumentApp service of Google Apps Script. You can use use findText method with simple regular expressions to find text elements in the document that match a pattern and replace them with the specified text…. All well and good but in some cases, this simple search and replace function may fail if the search text does not transform into a valid regular expression.”
Online Journalism Blog: What are regular expressions — and how to use them in Google Sheets to get data from text
Online Journalism Blog: What are regular expressions — and how to use them in Google Sheets to get data from text . “In an extract from a new chapter in the ebook Finding Stories in Spreadsheets, I explain what regular expressions are — and how they can be used to extract information from spreadsheets. The ebook version of this tutorial includes a dataset and exercise to employ these techniques.”
MakeTechEasier: How to Use Regular Expressions to Improve Productivity in Your Daily Tasks
MakeTechEasier: How to Use Regular Expressions to Improve Productivity in Your Daily Tasks. “If you are already familiar with the basic power of regular expressions, you might be interested in knowing how they can be used. If you want to brush up on the basics, check out our Regular Expressions cheatsheet and Beginner’s Guide to Regular Expressions. Here are some daily tasks where regular expressions can improve your productivity.” A nice sideways way to get into regular expressions if you’ve never heard of them.
Using Crosswords to Learn Regular Expressions
I love this! Crosswords to help you learn regular expressions. “If you’ve been using regular expressions for a long time, they aren’t very hard. But learning them for the first time can be tedious. Unless you try your hand at regular expression crosswords. The clues are regular expressions and the rows and columns all have to match the corresponding regular expressions.”