Summary and Setup

This Library Carpentry lesson introduces people with library- and information-related roles to working with regular expressions. The lesson provides background on the regular expression language and how it can be used to match and extract text and to clean data.

Getting Started

Library Carpentry’s teaching is hands-on, so participants are encouraged to use their own computers to insure the proper setup of tools for an efficient workflow. These lessons assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools.

Prerequisites

This lesson has no prerequisites. You will need a laptop and an internet connection to complete Episode 2.

This lesson does not require any special setup.