Glad you've rediscovered your love of regex's lol I think like many powerful tools, an good understanding pays dividends. Nice video, Engineer Man :) BTW, my e-mail address has a hyphen in it, and there are a surprising number of e-mail regex's which don't match the RFC, denying my e-mail address :/
Had no idea what Regex was, i just clicked out of curiosity but this is something i wish i would have known 20 years ago, the whole time i was watching i my brain would think of all the things i could do w that. I'm learning this stuff, the potential is limitless.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou...! I am friends with regexes now. In just 15 minutes you have un-confused me and made it look painless... it's given me the courage to continue to explore. I didn't think it was possible :). You rock man.
Just had a *legit* "lightbulb" moment while watching this. I've been trying to get my head around RegEx for a while now and this just made it happen. AMAZING tool and awesome explanations. Thank ya sir!
I went through multiple regex tutorials and forgotten it an equal number of times after a period of not using it. That's not going to change this time either. But now I know which tutorial to refer to when I need a refresher. Thanks for this one. And would really appreciate a follow up video.
Engineer Man, I have looked up tutorials on RegEx before but always walk away confused. Thanks to you I now understand! Thank you for the to-the-point and simple explanation! I love how you're always so relaxed and are just like, yeah, this is how it is, so simple. LOL
Thanks for the video Engineer Man! I truly hated dealing with Regular Expressions, and would run into situations where I'd try to change an existing one, or create a new expression that would simply break and no longer match what I was aiming for. Your detailed explanation has made it much less scary, and it makes much more sense now. Keep up the great work!
Seriously, the first time I've had regex explained to me that made sense. You gave enough to actually get started, but not so much to overwhelm. Great tool, btw.
Thank you for this. Over the last several years RegEx has been such a pain for me. This helped me fix something I spent hours working on in MINUTES that I'd been dreading working on.
I tinkered with trying to learn regex a couple years ago and got sidetracked by other stuff. This tutorial explained a great deal in just 15 minutes. Good job.
wow you made Regex so simple... I never thought a 16 minute video could teach all the essentials but here we are! huge thanks! you are awesome :) cant wait to use this in VS code search or javascript projects
damn this was soo useful. - I searched the youtube a a lot for Regex tutorial for SQL, but I couldn't find any. - I read documentation 10-12 times, I didnt understand shit! - Bought a course on udemy which covered Regex, I still didn't understand. But this video made my concept clear af!! One of the best channel for Coders!
This video is so incredibly useful, I've been having trouble struggling to understand regular expressions and this video helped kick-start my understanding. Thanks!
Debuggex is fantastic. I needed to write a crude email regex (given the circumstances I had no other options, so I made sure the regex was very lenient and I tested it on email lists) and debuggex was plenty of help. This is also a really good tutorial, regexes are hard
Man - you make it so understandable ... which admittedly, at least in my case not the same as using it with a degree of proficiency - but I hear you loud and clear - use it often.
Wow...on the rare occasions that I have had to implement reg ex it's been a case of "figure out what I need to get the job done." Having a tool like this one will really help! Thanks...
This is good, i watched other videos that got me confused with their approach this kinda aswer lots of my questions why they are adding this or that and having the graphical view makes things clear keep up the great work... following now
Very cool. I’ve done lots of regex over the years but definitely found times where I couldn’t see why it wouldn’t match, this would’ve been a great help.
Wow. Engineer Man, you helped me see the light. Regex always frightened and confused me but your explanation made it so much more intuitive. Why can't all the software books explain it like you did??? Thank you so much, Engineer Man! Love all your videos, they are really inspirational.
Using a lot of regular expressions in my work I was already quite familiar with them. But the tool you use is awesome and worth while looking at this video. Thanks!
Thank you, very helpful. I'm studying web development within .NET and we had to use regular expressions in one assignment. I had problems understanding how they work, and your video has been of immense use to me. The railroad diagrams are especially useful, make it so much easier to understand the logic of the regular expression being examined.
I love you man. After all these years of confusion I finally feel like a superhero, a new member of Justice League, Dr. Regex also known as Mr. String. My superpower is to manipulate any string under any form around the universe. I just need good wi-fi. Neat!
Brilliant. Im going to watch this a few times this week to make sure I remember. I always say to myself I want to learn it, and never gotten round to it. You explained it really well
coming from a lot of simple experience in windows and word, this really helps bridge what I had perceived was a gap within Linux and it's assortment of software. Thankyou for showng my perception was wrong.
Wow, this is the best tutorial for Regular Expressions I've ever seen. Well explained, I was a mess with this topic, but I think I have understood. And that tool is amazing! Thank you very much!
So by about 1/3 to 1/2 way through I was pretty confused and then it just clicked. My grep searches will be much more effective now. Thanks much for these videos.
Excellent video. I wish this was around 15 or so years ago when I was starting out as a programmer. I learned regular expressions very slowly one step at a time over a few years.
I was already pretty good with reg-ex in python but I learned a little something anyway and as always I love how you get the kernel of the topic and leave the rest for looking up when you need to.
Thanks for the video. The debuggex tool looks very helpful. Please more videos on this. I'm taking a Unix/Linux course right now and its way harder than I ever imagined. Its very discouraging.
I wrote regex rules for a living for a few years, the difference between being adequate and being excellent at it is huge. Having something like debugex at that point in my life would have been a godsend.
I'm happy I found your channel man, your videos are amazing. Although I'm not a software engineer, I'm looking forward to improve my coding skills to be a better system engineer. I would love to see a more advanced video showing how to search and replace with regex. Like grouping and replacing not the whole match but specific things from the match.
Watched your video trolling the craigslist spammer and your web scraping vid with python and bs4. I wanted to comment "can you do a tutorial on regex?" but remembered the first rule of asking questions... well, there's already an answer, and here it is. thanks for this!
How on Dafuq this channel not at 1M subscribers. I just ran into your channel I have been binging. Engineer Man I am broke and working hard to break into Tech. I know need to work hard. Thank you for making content for people like me that want to get ahead.
Amazingly clear explanation! Thank you so much for a really great tutorial. I will definitely use debuggex in the future. I have liked the video and subscribed to your channel!
Best regex tutorial I've ever seen. Props.
Austin Mallar Darek has a good tutorial on Regex
I agree with you!
I think the Perl Tutorial with Regex from Leeds University I think is better even though its way old...
Agreed! Very nice explanation.
It made my concepts so clear.
Agreed!
When Superman goes to bed, he puts on his Engineer Man pyjamas
I came into this video hating regex.
I left this video liking regex.
My work here is done.
Snap
Glad you've rediscovered your love of regex's lol
I think like many powerful tools, an good understanding pays dividends.
Nice video, Engineer Man :)
BTW, my e-mail address has a hyphen in it, and there are a surprising number of e-mail regex's which don't match the RFC, denying my e-mail address :/
@@_Stin_ exactly why i prefer open src sites
TRUUUUE
I have never attempted Reg Ex but that was really easy to follow and understand. Keep up the quality content.
Cool intro to regex. I would also welcome a second part!
Yess :3
Had no idea what Regex was, i just clicked out of curiosity but this is something i wish i would have known 20 years ago, the whole time i was watching i my brain would think of all the things i could do w that. I'm learning this stuff, the potential is limitless.
By far - absolute best walk through of regex I've been able to find online. Underrated video. Great job, thanks Engineer Man!
You're welcome. Glad it helped.
Thankyouthankyouthankyou...! I am friends with regexes now. In just 15 minutes you have un-confused me and made it look painless... it's given me the courage to continue to explore. I didn't think it was possible :). You rock man.
Best regex tutorial I've seen! I had almost given up on this thing and here Engineer Man comes and explains it so neatly.
Just had a *legit* "lightbulb" moment while watching this. I've been trying to get my head around RegEx for a while now and this just made it happen. AMAZING tool and awesome explanations. Thank ya sir!
Happy to have been of some small help.
Same here... I've been in software for a while and this was there perfect video I needed to more fully understand RegEx!!!
I went through multiple regex tutorials and forgotten it an equal number of times after a period of not using it. That's not going to change this time either. But now I know which tutorial to refer to when I need a refresher. Thanks for this one.
And would really appreciate a follow up video.
Very easy to watch ! I am currently watching all your vids to help me broaden my knowledge on moving elsewhere in IT
Engineer Man, I have looked up tutorials on RegEx before but always walk away confused. Thanks to you I now understand! Thank you for the to-the-point and simple explanation! I love how you're always so relaxed and are just like, yeah, this is how it is, so simple. LOL
After numerous tutorials this one definitely takes the crown. Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the video Engineer Man!
I truly hated dealing with Regular Expressions, and would run into situations where I'd try to change an existing one, or create a new expression that would simply break and no longer match what I was aiming for. Your detailed explanation has made it much less scary, and it makes much more sense now.
Keep up the great work!
Seriously, the first time I've had regex explained to me that made sense. You gave enough to actually get started, but not so much to overwhelm. Great tool, btw.
Thank you for this. Over the last several years RegEx has been such a pain for me. This helped me fix something I spent hours working on in MINUTES that I'd been dreading working on.
Nice!
I tinkered with trying to learn regex a couple years ago and got sidetracked by other stuff. This tutorial explained a great deal in just 15 minutes. Good job.
I thought regex was so cryptic not until you explained it in this great tutorial. The best so far in you tube.
Outstanding introduction. Clear, concise, and a comprehensive primer for beginners. Highly recommended.
I followed you tutorial while using Rubular, This is the best and simplest regex tutorial
Best regex explanation ever, loving your channel
Love the straight forward no "bs" approach. Great introduction to regex :)
wow you made Regex so simple... I never thought a 16 minute video could teach all the essentials but here we are! huge thanks! you are awesome :) cant wait to use this in VS code search or javascript projects
damn this was soo useful.
- I searched the youtube a a lot for Regex tutorial for SQL, but I couldn't find any.
- I read documentation 10-12 times, I didnt understand shit!
- Bought a course on udemy which covered Regex, I still didn't understand.
But this video made my concept clear af!!
One of the best channel for Coders!
This video is so incredibly useful, I've been having trouble struggling to understand regular expressions and this video helped kick-start my understanding.
Thanks!
Debuggex is fantastic. I needed to write a crude email regex (given the circumstances I had no other options, so I made sure the regex was very lenient and I tested it on email lists) and debuggex was plenty of help. This is also a really good tutorial, regexes are hard
absolutely the perfect regex tutorial and I've never had the courage to even begin learning regex
Man - you make it so understandable ... which admittedly, at least in my case not the same as using it with a degree of proficiency - but I hear you loud and clear - use it often.
This has to be one of the best tutorials I've ever seen. Keep it up!
Mate - absolutely class videos. perfect pace and for some reason everything I've needed help on you've given me the exact answer!!! Thanks again.
You're welcome!
That was literally THE BEST RegEx Video I've seen ! It helped me a lot. Thank you so much
Cheers for this compact tutorial of Regex. Needed a refresher and this starts that off brilliantly.
Wow...on the rare occasions that I have had to implement reg ex it's been a case of "figure out what I need to get the job done." Having a tool like this one will really help! Thanks...
This is good, i watched other videos that got me confused with their approach this kinda aswer lots of my questions why they are adding this or that and having the graphical view makes things clear keep up the great work... following now
Just come across your channel and I love it. Short, to the point and informative. Thumbs up
Very cool. I’ve done lots of regex over the years but definitely found times where I couldn’t see why it wouldn’t match, this would’ve been a great help.
Multiple times i've learned regex, and forget it. Now i will remember this to the rest of my life, thank you!
Wow. Engineer Man, you helped me see the light. Regex always frightened and confused me but your explanation made it so much more intuitive. Why can't all the software books explain it like you did??? Thank you so much, Engineer Man! Love all your videos, they are really inspirational.
Nice job you're doing in this channel man ! Congrats!
\w actually matches digits as well
from the cheat sheet it says:
\w A word character (same as [_a-zA-Z0-9])
I should have made that more clear. Thanks for point that out.
\w : [a-zA-Z0-9_]
It matches also underscore
www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_regexp_wordchar.asp
docs.python.org/3/library/re.html
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But he put the underscore
@@xrafter Exactly 😅
This was, by far, the best regex video I have ever watched.
Using a lot of regular expressions in my work I was already quite familiar with them. But the tool you use is awesome and worth while looking at this video. Thanks!
Thank you, very helpful. I'm studying web development within .NET and we had to use regular expressions in one assignment. I had problems understanding how they work, and your video has been of immense use to me. The railroad diagrams are especially useful, make it so much easier to understand the logic of the regular expression being examined.
I love you man. After all these years of confusion I finally feel like a superhero, a new member of Justice League, Dr. Regex also known as Mr. String. My superpower is to manipulate any string under any form around the universe. I just need good wi-fi. Neat!
Tons of love❤️. You made me one step closer to programming which I always thought not my cup of tea. I'm more confident with regex now.
You got this.
thanks a lot for the link! This tool saved my life... I should pay more attention to such kind of stuff while working on projects
This is one of the best regex tutorials on RUclips. Thanks for making it.
Perfect can't think of a better concrete visual presentation
Whoa, easily the best Regex explanation online or at my university
Brilliant. Im going to watch this a few times this week to make sure I remember. I always say to myself I want to learn it, and never gotten round to it. You explained it really well
Thank you :)
Really enjoying your videos man keep it up and I will keep watching and learning.
I am terrible at regex, and you made me understand it better than any tutorial I could ever read..... good stuff man!
coming from a lot of simple experience in windows and word, this really helps bridge what I had perceived was a gap within Linux and it's assortment of software. Thankyou for showng my perception was wrong.
Wow, this is the best tutorial for Regular Expressions I've ever seen. Well explained, I was a mess with this topic, but I think I have understood. And that tool is amazing! Thank you very much!
Cool Teaching of Regex bro. I watched all other tutorials and this is the perfect one.
Thanks for breaking it down and making Regex abit more palatable to stomach
Wonderful video. Never thought Regex would become so simple
So by about 1/3 to 1/2 way through I was pretty confused and then it just clicked. My grep searches will be much more effective now. Thanks much for these videos.
This is great! Please keep vids like this coming. I enjoy your teaching style
this tutorial boost confidence to understand and use regex thanks dude.
Very nicely described! That made the whole concept surprisingly easy to grasp.
Excellent video. I wish this was around 15 or so years ago when I was starting out as a programmer. I learned regular expressions very slowly one step at a time over a few years.
I was already pretty good with reg-ex in python but I learned a little something anyway and as always I love how you get the kernel of the topic and leave the rest for looking up when you need to.
Awesome Tutorial!!! Love the way you made it so easy understand!!! This is a must watch for anyone trying learn Regex!!
This was incredibly helpful and I feel much more comfortable with regex now. Thank you for a fantastic video
great tutorial and great channel! also, debuggex is a lot easier to understand than some of the other regex helpers out there.
Great explanation! I always struggle understanding regex but you explained it in a way that was good enough for me!
Thanks for the video. The debuggex tool looks very helpful. Please more videos on this. I'm taking a Unix/Linux course right now and its way harder than I ever imagined. Its very discouraging.
I wrote regex rules for a living for a few years, the difference between being adequate and being excellent at it is huge.
Having something like debugex at that point in my life would have been a godsend.
Thank you very much for helping me get over my fear of regular expression syntax.
Thanks man. You taught in few minutes what i couldn’t grasp for long time. 👍
So great! I've always despaired of remembering regex, but this really helps!
Continue
Super helpful! I'm actually going to reference this video for work and the debuggex site.
Recently found this vid and subscribed to your channel. Great practical approach. Looking forward to watching more content. Thanks!!
Glad it helped!
Thank you for posting this right after I was thinking I should try and learn these.
I knew it and made it just for you!
I didn't have to finish this video before subscribing. This is great. Thank you.
Thanks! Best regex video I’ve come across. Well explained 👍
Please now another one 😁
Hey I just wanted to say thank you for your content, keep it up you're doing a great job!
Engineer Man thank you very much! I finally understood regular expressions, you did it!! Thank you
This video is a great help. To the point and now my fear of regex is gone! Mission accomplished!
I'm happy I found your channel man, your videos are amazing. Although I'm not a software engineer, I'm looking forward to improve my coding skills to be a better system engineer. I would love to see a more advanced video showing how to search and replace with regex. Like grouping and replacing not the whole match but specific things from the match.
I meant to do a part 2 of this and still intend to. Will cover lookarounds, capture groups, and search/replace.
You really helped overcome the fear of regex. Very easy to understand from your explanation!
I looooove Reggex so much. I dont know why but i just find it so much fun when i need to use it.
Watched your video trolling the craigslist spammer and your web scraping vid with python and bs4. I wanted to comment "can you do a tutorial on regex?" but remembered the first rule of asking questions... well, there's already an answer, and here it is. thanks for this!
just stumbled upon your video: brilliant! I'm not scared anymore 🙏🏼
Excellent video! Thank You for sharing a well explained reg-ex presentation.
Best regex tutorial
I've been using regex in python, and this was the best tutorial i came across.
Finally, an understandable intro to Regex. More!
{Subscribing now.}
Whoa, this really cleared up a lot!
You sir, deserve a thumbs up and a subscribe. Great tutorial on regex and thank you for that resource.
Excellent explanation I ever seen regarding to regex:) Loved it:)
Brilliant explanation ! Thanks so much - I understand Regex so much better now !
Wonderfully simple explanation, RegEx I fear thee not any longer!
How on Dafuq this channel not at 1M subscribers. I just ran into your channel I have been binging. Engineer Man I am broke and working hard to break into Tech. I know need to work hard. Thank you for making content for people like me that want to get ahead.
Eyes on the prize. Stay commuted, don't give up, and you'll get there.
Just wanted to say that your channel is excellent. This demystified regex for me.
Amazingly clear explanation! Thank you so much for a really great tutorial. I will definitely use debuggex in the future. I have liked the video and subscribed to your channel!
Simplest explanation ever !!! Thank you Engineer Man !!!
Great tutorial and thanks for linking that tool. It's really useful :)