Summary and Schedule
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.
| Setup Instructions | Download files required for the lesson | |
| Duration: 00h 00m | 1. Regular Expressions | How can you imagine using regular expressions in your work? |
| Duration: 00h 35m | 2. Matching & Extracting Strings | How can you use regular expressions to match and extract strings? |
| Duration: 01h 05m | 3. Multiple Choice Quiz | How do you find and match strings with regular expressions? |
| Duration: 02h 05m | 4. Exercises | How do you find and match strings with regular expressions? |
| Duration: 02h 55m | Finish |
The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.