Silent Disco: Using Regular Expressions on Textual Data
Online
Our 'Silent Disco' workshops are based on tutorials from the Programming Historian website. This training event will follow content from the tutorial Understanding Regular Expressions. Regular expressions (or “regexes” for short) are a way of defining patterns that can apply to sequences of things. Regexes are also often available in some form in advanced word processors, providing a more powerful means of find-and-replace than matching exact sequences letter by letter.
This is an asynchronous event: when taking part, you will work through the tutorial at your own pace with an instructor available online to help you with any issues.
Participants will meet for a brief introduction and will then work on the tutorial at their own pace. The facilitator will be available via Teams Chat to reply to any questions that arise during the workshop, and to help with installation, troubleshooting or other issues.
This is a beginner level workshop. No previous knowledge on the topic is required/expected and the trainer will cover the basics of the method.
To attend this course, you will have to join the associated Microsoft Teams group. The link to join the group will be sent to attendees prior to the course start date, so please make sure to do so in advance.
After taking part in this event, you may decide that you need some further help in applying what you have learnt to your research. If so, you can book a Data Surgery meeting with one of our training fellows.
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If you’re new to this training event format, or to CDCS training events in general, read more on what to expect from CDCS training. Here you will also find details of our cancellation and no-show policy, which applies to this event.
