
Practice Makes Regexp
50 exercises to help you master regular expressions
Practice Makes Regexp launched on March 14, 2016 with 61 votes, #1,335 of 4,409 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
What it does
This new course contains 50 exercises & solutions to help developers master regexs, reduce their app development time, and increase confidence in their work
Regular expressions are incredibly useful : They let you search through huge quantities of text, extracting only the things that are useful to you. For decades, programmers have used regular expressions to examine logfiles, retrieve portions of user input, and replace text that follows complex rules. Need to figure out if certain types of private information are in your logfiles? Or handle input from poorly written APIs, whose contents vary from release to release? Or find out which disks are close to filling up? These are the sorts of problems that regexps can solve quickly, easily, and elegantly. Have you ever known a developer who needed to use a regexp to solve a crucial, time-boxed…from practicemakesregexp.com
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