Regular Expressions

Sep 04, 2013 – Filed as: Software⁷⁰ Productivity¹³

Regular expressions are a concise way to search and transform strings using patterns. They are available in numerous text editors and programming languages.

Below are some slides I presented to the Splunk Seattle office about regular expressions. I introduce basic regular expressions and show the intermediate and advanced syntax which I use commonly. The second-to-last slide has a nice cheatsheet for the subset of the regex language that I actually use.