Regex Basics | Match, Extract, and Clean Text

Dataslice · Beginner ·🛠️ AI Tools & Apps ·5y ago
Regex Basics | Match, Extract, and Clean Text Regex is a tool to find different patterns in text, and it can speed up your workflow if you do any kind of data cleaning or data scraping. In this video, I explain a few essential regex concepts which should be enough for most scenarios. Timeline: 0:00 Intro 0:32 Character classes 2:06 Groups 4:06 Quantifiers 6:08 Anchors 7:32 Escape characters 7:45 Further reading Links: https://regex101.com/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/introduction-to-advanced-regular-expressions/ https://cheatography.com/davechild/cheat-sheets/regular-expressions/
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Chapters (7)

Intro
0:32 Character classes
2:06 Groups
4:06 Quantifiers
6:08 Anchors
7:32 Escape characters
7:45 Further reading
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