Webinar: What are regular expressions?

This is the fourth webinar from the free webinar series on test automation.
Video recording (duration 1 hour 10 min.):

Topics and details of the video under the cut

The webinar presenter, Mikhail Polyarus , talks about the basics of regular expressions and demonstrates their work with practical examples.

00:00 - 02:37	Introduction. Agenda and goals of the webinar.
02:38 - 04:35	Regular Expressions History
04:36 - 10:54	What are regular expressions? Definition Logging example
10:55 - 14:37	Regular expression syntax. Regular (literals) and special characters. Escaping special characters.
14:38 - 17:09	Character sets (classes); [0-9], [Aa]
17:10 - 17:54	Special metacharacters are abbreviations. \ d \ D \ s \ S \ w \ W
17:55 - 20:00	Position indication in search: beginning and end of line, beginning and end of word
20:01 - 20:24	Grouping a (bc | b | x) cc
20:25 - 27:30	The sequences {m, n}. *, +,?
27:32 - 30:29	Search “(a | c | z)”
30:30 - 34:07	Practical examples. How to read a regular expression?
34:07 - 35:59	Regular Expression Checker Tools
36:00 - 42:19	Simple tasks that can be solved using regular expressions: parsing phone numbers, email, html tags
42:20 - 47:36	Examples of practical use of regular expressions. Find all running processes by template, all email addresses in the file.
47:37 - 50:33	Regular expressions in Notepad ++ and Total Commander
50:34 - 56:59	Using regular expressions in programming: Python, Java, JavaScript
57:00 - 59:14	The use of regular expressions in test automation
59:15 - 1:01:31	Results
1:01:32 - 1:09:45	Answers on questions

UPD: Link to the PDF version of Mind Map for Regular Expressions
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Author: Mikhail Polyarush. The webinar was supported by Ciklum.
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