Regular Expressions Tutorial

Topics

• Creating a Regular Expression
• Methods of RegEx and Strings
• Flags
• Anchors
• Sets and Ranges
• Character Sets
• Escaping Special Characters
• Lengths
• Quantifiers
• Greedy Quantifiers
• Groups
• Or (|)

Exercise Questions

I recommend utilizing the diagramming tool, Debuggex, linked in the Resources section, to help solve the exercises and see how the expression is working.

Running

1. Navigate inside the repo in terminal and install node modules: npm install
2. To run, inside the repo use: npm start
3. A browser should launch, otherwise navigate to localhost:1025