The Smartest Way to Learn Python Regex: Learn the Best-Kept Productivity Secret of Code Masters
- Length: 245 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publication Date: 2020-04-12
- ISBN-10: B0872K926Z
- Sales Rank: #994568 (See Top 100 Books)
Google engineers are regular expression masters. Why? Because the Google search engine is a massive text-processing engine that extracts value from trillions of webpages.
Facebook engineers are regular expression masters. Why? Because social networks like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram connect humans via text messages.
Amazon engineers are regular expression masters. Why? Because eCommerce giants ship products based on textual product descriptions.
When text meets computer science, regular expressions are already here.
The Smartest Way to Learn Python Regex transforms you into a regular expression master.
How? With our three-step, innovative approach, you’ll leverage all the scientifically proven insights of excellent teaching.
Step 1: Read a book chapter about a regular expression topic to learn all the basics you need to get started.
Step 2: Watch a course video on YouTube to make it stick. We specifically designed the videos to deliver the exact information from the chapter in a nutshell.
Step 3: Solve a code puzzle on Finxter.com to push your understanding to the next level and track your learning progress accurately.
You’ll learn vital regular expression topics such as Kleene star, plus operator, matching groups, lookaheads, special characters, character sets, and many more.
Here’s the deal: read this book, and you’ll be able to read and understand any regular expression you’ll ever encounter in practice.
Introduction Applications About Puzzle Learning Basics What's a Regex Pattern? The Method to Find All Matches Summary Special Symbols Literal Characters Summary Character Sets What's a Character Set? Negative Character Set Summary Intermezzo: Match Function Methods re.match() vs re.findall() re.fullmatch() Methods re.fullmatch() vs re.match() Dot Regex What's the Dot Regex? Intermezzo: Flags Match Newline Match the Dot Character Summary Asterisk Quantifier What's the Asterisk Quantifier? Asterisk Example Match the Asterisk Character Summary Plus Quantifier What's the Plus Quantifier? Plus (+) Quantifiers Examples Match the Plus (+) Symbol Summary ? Quantifier Definition Question Mark Summary Quantifier Differentiation Asterisk vs Plus Asterisk vs Question Mark Question Mark vs Plus Greediness Regex Quantifiers Greedy Match Non-Greedy Match Non-Greedy Question Mark (??) Non-Greedy Asterisk (*?) Non-Greedy Plus (+?) Greedy vs Non-Greedy Which is Faster? Summary Line and String Boundaries Start-of-String (^) Start-of-Line (^) End of String ($) End of Line ($) Intermezzo: Regex Methods Match Caret (^) or Dollar ($) Symbols Summary OR Regex What's the OR | Operator? Examples Nested OR Character Set OR Match the Vertical Line | Summary AND Regex Ordered Regex AND Operator Unordered Regex AND Operator Summary NOT Regex Matching Groups Simple Matching Groups First Matching Group Other Matching Groups Named Groups Non-Capturing Groups Positive Lookahead Negative Lookahead Group Flags Summary Split Method re.split() Minimal Example Maxsplit Argument Optional Flag Argument Regex Versus String Split Summary Substitution Method re.sub() Minimal Example count Argument Optional Flag Argument Regex Sub Versus String Replace Remove Regex Pattern Summary Compile Method re.compile() Regular Expression Object Discussion Summary Bonus Puzzles Final Remarks Where to go from here?
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