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- Regexes - video
- Were can I use Regexes - video
- Simple use of Regexes - video
- Finding a string in a file - video
- Single character match - video
- Match any character - video
- Character classes - video
- Negated character class - video
- Optional Characters - video
- Any number of any characters - video
- Quantifiers - video
- Quantifiers on Character classes - video
- Exercise: Regexes 1 - video
- Solution: regexes 1 - video
- Solution: regexes 2 - video
- Solution: regexes 3 - video
- Regular Expressions - part 2
- Regex Alternatives - video
- Regex Capturing - video
- Regex Anchors - video
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- Special character classes - video
- Exercise: Match numbers with regex - video
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- Exercise: hexa, octal, binary - video
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- Case insensitive regexes - video
- multiple lines in regexes - video
- Single-line regexes using /s - video
- /x modifier for verbose regexes - video
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- Global substitution with regexes - video
- Greedy regex quantifiers - video
- Minimal Regex Matching - video
- trim - video
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