Using Regular Expressions - Introduction and Simple Use Case

Regular expressions are a way to define an advanced search pattern that can be very useful for manipulating text, among other things. They are used quite a bit in programming languages but in this case, I am showing how I use them in a text editor to manipulate text copied from a website into a clean list format. This isn't so much a tutorial as it is a real world example of how you can use regular expressions to speed up your work. And I'll admit - they are just fun to use!

00:00 - Intro
01:29 - A simple use case for regular expressions
03:24 - Two step process to manipulate text
08:33 - Combining steps into a single expression
12:15 - Differing regular expression syntax
14:34 - Wrap Up

More info, tutorials and practice:

https://www.regular-expressions.info/
https://regexone.com/
https://regexr.com/
https://github.com/ziishaned/learn-regex

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Apero Hour" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)

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