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In this course, author Kevin Skoglund shows how to find and manipulate text using regular expressions. The course covers the basic syntax of regular expressions, shows how to create flexible matching patterns, and demonstrates how the regular expression engine parses text to find matches. The course also covers referring back to previous matches with backreferences and creating complex matching patterns with lookaround assertions, and explores the most common applications of regular expressions. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:

    Creating flexible patterns using character sets
    Achieving efficiency when using repetition
    Understanding different types of search strategies
    Writing logical and efficient alternations
    Capturing groups and reusing them with backreferences
    Developing complex patterns with lookaround assertions
    Working with Unicode and multibyte characters
    Matching email addresses, URLs, dates, HTML tags, and credit card numbers
    Using search and replace to format a document