Peter Thoeny
CTO & Founder, TWiki.org
Founder & CTO of TWiki.org, a leading enterprise collaboration platform. Open source advocate.
Silicon Valley Code Camp : October 3rd and 4th 2015Session
Regular Expressions, To Match Or Not, That is the Question
A regular expression is a language to describe a search pattern. This talk assumes you dabbled with regular expressions before, and teaches you how to read and construct simple to complex regular expressions.
About This Session
A regular expression (regex for short) is a language to describe a search pattern. Initially used in Unix text processing utilities ed and grep, many programming languages now have built-in support for regular expressions, such as Perl, Ruby, AWK, and Tcl. Others support it via a standard library, such as .NET languages, Java, Python and C++. This talk assumes you dabbled with regular expressions before, and teaches you how to read, construct and use simple to complex regular expressions. At the end of the session you'll understand how to define a regex that validates an e-mail address: \b\w[\w.%+-]?@[\w.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}\b
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