Learn Regex the Hard Way
A simple 10 exercise course teaching the basics of Regex using sed
and some simple text editing puzzles. This is the course if you want to get better at parsing text, transforming data, or using text editors like Vim.
This course is free to read and the videos are priced to cover the cost of hosting them on my server. This course is also in pre-order status which means videos are not yet ready, but will come shortly after the content is written and working well.
Course Contents
This course contains the following modules and lessons. Every course offers free samples of the first 10 lessons so you can decide if you want to take the course, and excerpts from all lessons after that.
Module Crash Course in Regex
This module takes you from nothing to be able to use Regular Expressions (regex) for simple search and replace operations.
- 00: IntroductionIntroduction and explanation of the course.
- 01: Gearing UpGearing Up
- 02: Basic MatchingBasic matching
- 03: AnchoringAnchoring
- 04: Basic RepetitionBasic Repetition
- 05: Character SetsCharacter Set
- 06: Advanced RepetitionAdvanced Repetition
- 07: Introducing `sed`Introducing sed
- 08: CapturingCapturing
- 09: Advanced `sed` TricksAdvanced sed Tricks
- 10: One Hundred Practice ProblemsOne Hundred Practice Problems
- 11: Real World ExamplesReal World Examles
- 12: Additional ResourcesIntroduction