2.2: Regular Expressions: Meta-characters - Programming with Text

In this video I discuss meta-characters: what are they and what role do they play in regular expressions?

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I took a course in theoretical computing a few years ago and regular expressions were the first topic we discussed. I remember thinking "I wonder when this will come up" and since it didn't make a whole lot of sense then, I'm glad this video seems to have cleared things up quite a bit. Sometimes you just need to go over things a few times to feel like they make sense. Thanks for the video!

[mahmoudreda]

if you want the charachters only [A-Za-z] without [0-9]: use \D\w
EX: any 4 charts word
\b\D\w{4}\b


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