JavaScript RegExp
JavaScript RegExp
an example based guide
About the Book
Literally was having a mini-breakdown about not understanding Regex in algorithm solutions the other day and now I'm feeling so much better, so thank YOU!
I genuinely feel like I'm developing the skill for spotting when and where to use them after so much practice! — feedback on twitter
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.
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Table of Contents
1. Preface
2. What's so special about Regular Expressions?
3. RegExp introduction
4. Anchors
5. Alternation and Grouping
6. Escaping metacharacters
7. Dot metacharacter and Quantifiers
8. Interlude: Tools for debugging and visualization
9. Working with matched portions
10. Character class
11. Groupings and backreferences
12. Interlude: Common tasks
13. Lookarounds
14. Unicode
15. Further Reading
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