An introduction to Regular Expressions

On 27 August 2009, I gave a talk to the Atlanta Perl Mongers on Perl regular expressions. The talk uses a couple of simple problems to introduce characters, metacharacters, character classes, anchors, quantifiers, alternation, and clustering. While this is a useful subset of regular expressions, it is only an introduction; there is ample material for subsequent talks. The presentation slides for the talk are available for download in Acrobat (.pdf) format.

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31 August 2009: corrected ...

27 August 2009: original presentation

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