Complete Regular Expressions Tutorial! (with exercises for practice) 

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In this video we go through all the fundamentals of using regular expressions (regexes) to match patterns in programming.
In this video we cover the following:
- Character Sets [a-zA-Z0-9]
- Quantifiers *, +, ?, {3,5}
- Metacharacters ^ . | $
- Character Classes \b \s \w \d
- Groups
- Lookahead & Lookbehind assertions
- and more!
There is a detailed timeline down below.
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Resources!
Source code & txt files: github.com/keithgalli/regular...
Practice exercise video: • Practice Regular Expre...
Cheat sheet: cheatography.com/davechild/ch...
Regex golf: alf.nu/RegexGolf
Javascript Info: javascript.info/regexp-lookah...
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Video timeline!
0:00 - Video overview & topics covered
1:43 - Basic regex syntax (building up an intuition)
4:23 - Character Sets Overview ([A-Za-z0-9])
5:57 - Quantifiers Guide (*, +, ?, {3,5})
9:30 - Guided Exercise: Find all words that don't use vowels
11:08 - Helpful cheat sheet to remember regex syntax in the real-world
12:47 - Matching words/patterns of a specific length ({3,5})
14:58 - OR operator overview
17:14 - Guided Exercise: Match valid sentences (starts with capital letter, ends with period)
21:18 - Character classes overview (\w, \b, \d, \s)
23:13 - Escaping Characters
25:02 - Practice Exercise #1: Write a regular expression to match meme text format
30:39 - Practice Exercise #2: Write a regular expression to match a specific date format
39:03 - Groups overview
50:16 - Lookahead & Lookbehind Assertions
1:00:18 - Practice Exercise #3: Detect if same word pops up multiple times in a sentence
1:06:04 - Practice Exercise #4: Password matching with rules
1:16:16 - Some final recommendations! (additional practice, chatgpt, etc.)