Regular Expressions Workshop, December 16, 2021

University of North Texas

Online

Dec 16, 2021

9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Instructors: Lauren Ko

Helpers: Manuel G Gottardi, Gracie Flores-Hays

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General Information

This workshop is taught with materials provided by Library Carpentry, made by people working in library- and information-related roles to help you:

In this live online lesson, we will cover how to utilize regular expressions for text pattern matching, a way to find and manipulate data that may be applied in various text editors and programming languages.

Who: This course is aimed at students, faculty, staff, and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.

Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.

When: Dec 16, 2021. Add to your Google Calendar.

Requirements: Participants must have access to a computer with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have any software packages listed below installed.

Accessibility: We are dedicated to providing a positive and accessible learning environment for all. Please notify the instructors in advance of the workshop if you require any accommodations or if there is anything we can do to make this workshop more accessible to you.

Contact: Please email lauren.ko@unt.edu for more information.

Roles: To learn more about the roles at the workshop (who will be doing what), refer to our Workshop FAQ.


Code of Conduct

Everyone who participates in Carpentries activities is required to conform to the Code of Conduct. This document also outlines how to report an incident if needed.


Surveys

Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey

Post-workshop Survey


Documents

Regular Expressions Cheatsheet

Regular Expressions Presentation (pdf)


Schedule

Regular Expressions

Before Pre-workshop survey
09:00 Regular Expression Syntax and Exercises
10:30 Break
10:40 Matching and Extracting Strings
12:00 Wrap-up
12:20 Post-workshop Survey
12:30 End

Setup

To participate in this workshop, you will need access to software as described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.

We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.

Install the videoconferencing client

If you haven't used Zoom before, go to the official website to download and install the Zoom client for your computer.

Set up your workspace

Like other Carpentries workshops, you will be learning by "coding along" with the Instructors. To do this, you will need to have both the window for the tool you will be learning about (a terminal, RStudio, your web browser, etc..) and the window for the Zoom video conference client open. In order to see both at once, we recommend using one of the following set up options:

This blog post includes detailed information on how to set up your screen to follow along during the workshop.