Regular Expressions (Regex) with JavaScript – Easy and Fast!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Source Code Setup

Lecture 3: Increase the speed of learning

Chapter 2: JavaScript Regex Language

Lecture 1: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 2: Interactive Tool – Visually Observe and Build Regex

Lecture 3: Single Character Patterns

Lecture 4: Anchors

Lecture 5: Character Classes

Lecture 6: Quantifiers

Lecture 7: HTML Forms Input Validation

Lecture 8: Exercise – USA Zip code

Lecture 9: HTML Forms Input Validation Solution

Chapter 3: JavaScript Regex Engine – Behind the scenes

Lecture 1: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 2: One character at a time

Lecture 3: Left to Right

Lecture 4: Lab – Left to Right

Lecture 5: Greedy, Lazy and Backtracking Analogy

Lecture 6: Greedy, Lazy and Backtracking Examples

Lecture 7: Lab – Greedy, Lazy and Backtracking

Lecture 8: Groups, Backreference, Replacement

Lecture 9: Lab – Groups, Backreference, Replacement

Lecture 10: Look Ahead

Lecture 11: Look Behind

Lecture 12: Exercise – Currency Symbol

Lecture 13: Solution – Currency Symbol

Lecture 14: Exercise – Match a number

Lecture 15: Solution – Match a number

Lecture 16: Exercise – List all cars not made by Honda

Lecture 17: Solution – List all cars not made by Honda

Lecture 18: Exercise – Webserver Log Parser

Lecture 19: Solution – Webserver Log Parser

Lecture 20: Exercise – Filter by price

Lecture 21: Solution – Filter by price

Lecture 22: Exercise – List cars that meet specified criteria

Lecture 23: Solution – List cars that meet specified criteria

Lecture 24: Exercise – Password Validation

Lecture 25: Solution – Password Validation

Chapter 4: Regex Performance

Lecture 1: Downloadable Resources

Lecture 2: Exponential degradation – example of bad patterns and performance implication

Lecture 3: How to correct performance issues and optimize pattern

Chapter 5: Coding with JavaScript Regex

Lecture 1: Coding with Regex

Lecture 2: Development Environment, String and RegExp

Lecture 3: String Search

Lecture 4: Unit Testing

Lecture 5: Match, MatchAll, Groups

Lecture 6: Find-Replace, Split

Lecture 7: RegExp – Exec, Test

Lecture 8: Learn Regex Interactive Tool

Chapter 6: Project 1 – Log Parser

Lecture 1: Log Data Parser Objective

Lecture 2: Exercise 1 – Write a pattern to capture header information

Lecture 3: Exercise 2 – Write a pattern to capture error message

Lecture 4: Exercise 3 – Write a pattern to capture metrics

Lecture 5: Solution – How to write log parser regex patterns

Lecture 6: Solution – Log Data to JSON

Chapter 7: Project 2 – IoT Sensor Data

Lecture 1: Sensor Data Parser Objective

Lecture 2: Exercise 1 – Capture Date Value

Lecture 3: Exercise 2 – Capture Temperature and Humidity Value

Lecture 4: Solution – How to write sensor data patterns

Lecture 5: Solution – Sensor Data to JSON

Chapter 8: Project 3 – Health Care Data

Lecture 1: Health care Data Parser Objective

Lecture 2: Exercise 1- Cleanup pattern

Lecture 3: Exercise 2 – Write a pattern to capture a row

Lecture 4: Exercise 3 – Write a pattern to capture a cell

Lecture 5: Solution – How to write health care data patterns

Lecture 6: Solution – Health care data to JSON

Chapter 9: Interesting Question and Answers from the Discussion Forum

Lecture 1: How to Remove Embedded Comma Inside Double Quotes

Lecture 2: How to Extract Unit Number from Postal Address

Lecture 3: How to split text that uses comma and/or newline as separators

Chapter 10: Conclusion

Lecture 1: Bonus: SQL for Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Developers?

Lecture 2: Congratulations!