\s+[Rr]eg(ular [Ee]xpression|ex[pe]?)s? for Mortals (Workshop)
Thursday, 1:30 PM MDT - Westminster II
Jamie Zawinski once said “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.“. Many consider regular expressions to be indecipherable, but the truth is that every programmer should consider regular expressions an integral part of their toolkit. From the command line to your favorite text editor, from parsing user input to scraping HTML pages once you know regular expressions you will find a use for them in almost every programming context.
In this highly interactive workshop we will decipher the cryptic construct that is a Regular Expression. Starting with the basics, we will work our way towards advanced usage, including anchors, modifiers, groups, and look arounds.
This is a HIGHLY interactive workshop — Not only will we have a lot of exercises, we will use a playground that will allow us to experiment to our heart's content! Feel free to come in with issues you may have seen at work!
Agenda:
The basics and how to read regular expressions
Character Classes
Negation
Ranges
Shortcuts
Alternations
Repetitions
Word Boundaries
Capture Groups
Anchors
Modifiers
Let's once and for all make sense of this powerful tool.
I hope to see you all there.
About Raju Gandhi
Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.
He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.
He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).
Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.