The book heavily leans on examples to present features of regular expressions one by one. It is recommended that you manually type each example and experiment with them.

You should have prior experience working with Ruby, should know concepts like blocks, string formats, string methods, Enumerable, etc.

Exercises are also included to test your understanding.

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/Ruby_Regexp for code snippets and exercise files. The repo also has solutions for exercises.

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The book heavily leans on examples to present features of regular expressions one by one. It is recommended that you manually type each example and experiment with them.

You should have prior experience working with Python, should know concepts like string formats, string methods, list comprehension and so on.

Both standard re module and popular third party regex module is covered in this book.

Exercises are also included to test your understanding.

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/py_regular_expressions for code snippets and exercise files. The repo also has solutions for exercises.

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The book heavily leans on examples to present features of regular expressions one by one. It is recommended that you manually type each example and experiment with them.

You should have a good understanding of basic-level programming concepts and prior experience working with JavaScript. Should also know functional programming concepts like map and filter.

Exercises are also included to test your understanding.

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_js_regexp for code snippets. The repo also has exercises collated in a single file as well as another file with solutions.

The book heavily leans on examples to present features of grep as well as regular expressions one by one. It is recommended that you manually type each example and experiment with them. Understanding both the nature of sample input string and the output produced is essential.

You should have prior experience working with command line and bash shell, should know concepts like file redirection, command pipeline and so on.

Exercises are also included to test your understanding.

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnugrep_ripgrep for code snippets and files used for examples/exercises in the book. The repo also has solutions for exercises.

The book heavily leans on examples to present features of sed as well as regular expressions one by one. It is recommended that you manually type each example and experiment with them. Understanding both the nature of sample input string and the output produced is essential.

You should have prior experience working with command line and bash shell, should know concepts like file redirection, command pipeline and so on.

Exercises are also included to test your understanding.

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnused for code snippets and files used for examples/exercises in the book. The repo also has solutions for exercises.

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This book heavily leans on examples to present options and features of awk as well as regular expressions one by one. It is recommended that you manually type each example and experiment with them. Understanding both the nature of sample input string and the output produced is essential.

You should have prior experience working with command line and bash shell, should know concepts like file redirection, command pipeline and so on. You should also be familiar with programming concepts like variables, printing, functions, control structures, arrays, etc. Knowing basics of grep and sed will help in understanding similar features of awk.

Exercises are also included to test your understanding.

Visit https://github.com/learnbyexample/learn_gnuawk for code snippets and example files used in this book. The repo also has solutions for exercises.