Overview

The purpose of this module is to introduce students to Regular Expressions usage and applications. This module takes a look at how we can use modules made for using Regular Expressions in Python in order to solve different data challenges in an OOP context.

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Learning Outcomes

After completing this module, students should be able to:

  • understand what regular expressions are.

  • recognize regular expressions.

  • write regular expressions to match identified patterns.

  • understand how regular expressions are built into text editors.

  • understand the application of regular expressions in web scraping, data wrangling, and data validation.

  • understand how to write Regular Expressions.

  • understand how to use the re python module to find regular expressions matches.

  • understand how to use the re python module to extract data from files.

Additional Readings

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