Java Regular Expression Foundation

Learn a solid background of Regular Expressions in combination with different methods to manipulate strings.

Created by: Sera Nguyen
Developer, Architect, Professor

What Will I Learn?

• Apply regular expressions to validate user's inputs such as password formats, email formats, phone number formats, and date formats.
• Apply regular expressions to extract text from a certain string based on a certain patterns such as extracting numbers from a string, extracting email address from a string, and extracting alphabetical characters from a string.
• Use regular expressions in combination with different classes and methods to manipulate strings
• Distinguish the differences among different string manipulating methods so that those methods can be used appropriately
• Apply advanced regular expression techniques to gain better performance
• 30 question quiz to revise your regular expression skills

Requirements

• Students who take this course should have basic knowledge and skills in Java programming.
• Examples using in this course are demonstrated on Java 8 with Netbeans IDE 8. But students can use any Java IDE tools since the course itself does not depend on any specific IDE. All those tools are freely downloaded.

Target audience

• Any software developers should take this course so that they can have a solid background in using regular expression as well as master different way to manipulate strings
• This course is also meant for newbies who are not familiar with regular expressions or for some developers who have used some basic patterns but want to revise and learn a solid background about regular expression