How I learned to stop worrying and love Regular Expressions

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A nice intro and refresher to regular expressions, as well as teaching few regex modifiers that I didn't know of.

Suggested:
- more info on lower level details
- eventually, more interactivity (animations, maybe?)

Excellent talk, which has made RegExes less terrifying for me. They still look confusing as hell, but at least now I have the tools to figure it out.

Learned some useful new tricks with regexp (such as ? in a context after a repetition + or * to eliminate greediness), and a few gotchas on performance, that should certainly improve my own pitiful efforts with this arcane science.

But perhaps trying to squeeze too much information into too tight a timeframe, could have been a 3-hr conference tutorial session given how much was squeezed in

Really appreciated the talk, it was just too fast for me to keep up with it, still being a regex noob - I think Jordi had expected more time than he had. Good to see lots of examples of what can be done, I can hunt down in reference docs in the future. Thanks Jordi!

Gary Hockin at 09:55 on 14 Sep 2015

Tip top.

Not only very educational, but also It's been great fun (just check out the first slide, lol).
thanks Jordi, its amazing to see how much you covered in that short amount of time.