Mastering Regular Expressions in JavaScript

About Mastering Regular Expressions in JavaScript

Introduction

A Short History on Regular Expressions

Getting Started

Using Regular Expressions in JavaScript

Understanding Regular Expression Flags

Using Regexpal

Understanding Metacharacters

Using the Wildcard

Escaping Metacharacters

Matching Control Characters

Exercise 1 Start

Exercise 1 Finish

Using Character Sets

Specifying a Range in a Character Set

Excluding a Character Set

Escaping Metacharacters in a Character Set

Using Shorthand for Character Sets

Exercise 2 Start

Exercise 2 Finish

Using Repititions in Your Pattern

Understanding Greediness and Laziness

Specifying a Repetition Amount

Revisiting Greedy and Lazy Concepts

Exercise 3 Start

Exercise 3 Finish

Understanding Anchored Expressions

Using Start and End Anchors

Using the Multi-line Flag

Working with word Boundaries

Writing Accurate Regular Expressions

Exercise 4 Start

Exercise 4 Finish

Specifying Options

Using Grouping

Using Grouping with JavaScript

Understanding Capturing Groups

Understanding Group Back References

Using Lookahead Groups

Using Negative Lookahead Groups

Exercise 5 Start

Exercise 5 Finish

Introducing Unicode

Using Unicode Characters

Understanding ES6 Unicode Features

Applying Regular Expressions

Matching an Email Address

Matching a Twitter Handle

Testing Passwords

Using Replace with Regular Expressions

Matching a Word Next to Another Word

Validating Dates

Capturing Matched Text

Discovering Information about a Match

Iterating over Matches

Conclusion