Learn Regular Expressions in About 55 Minutes by Sam Hughes

[Ryuzaki]

The Course: http://qntm.org/files/re/re.html

I remembered this old sci-fi short story I wanted to read again and found it. Turns out the guy is a coder as well. Among the things on his site was this RegEx course.

I've only glanced at it. It seems to be solid. I'll chew my way through it over the next few days. I had to go ahead and share it since there's been a lot of discussion of scraping lately. No better way to target specific strings than RegEx it seems. Hope it helps!

 

[hehejo]

Knowing the basics is definitely a requirement, even if you don't code. You can also use them in editors like sublime text to extract information.

That being said, even after years of using them regularly, I still don't know more than the basics and often have to look things up. As long as you know the basics and you know what's possible/where to look things up when you need them then you should be fine.