Summary and Schedule

This is an introduction to regular expressions, starting with Grep and Sed examples, and then moving to R and Python examples.

	Setup Instructions	Download files required for the lesson
Duration: 00h 00m	1. Regular Expressions: The pitch	What sort of capabilities do regular expressions provide? What are regular expressions?
Duration: 00h 10m	2. Shell wildcards - a type of regex	Are regular expressions available in standard Unix commands?
Duration: 00h 50m	3. Pattern matching with grep -E, part 1	How do we write regexs to match complex patterns in files or output streams?
Duration: 02h 20m	4. Pattern matching with grep -E, part 2	How do we use predefined character classes for more complex search patterns?
Duration: 03h 20m	5. Find… and replace! With sed.	How do we find and replace content using regex patterns?
Duration: 05h 20m	6. Regexs within text editors	How can we invoke regular expressions within certain text editors?
Duration: 05h 25m	7. Python regular expressions	How can we invoke regular expressions using Python?
Duration: 05h 35m	8. R regular expressions	How can we invoke regular expressions using R?
Duration: 05h 45m	Finish

The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.

Participants will need a copy of all files in the data directory of this course’s repository and to be on a bash command line, cd’d to location of files.

A copy of the data may be obtained through:
git clone https://github.com/csiro-data-school/regex-exercise-data.git