This week, learning about Regular Expressions have really thrown my brain around in a mess!
I thought I would have a somewhat easier time since I had used grep for creating word documents before — I was so wrong! It has actually been a lot more confusing than I thought it’d be. That being said, it’s been a lot of fun to learn and try out Regular Expressions, although I can’t really imagine how I could use it for creative purposes just yet.
I was trying out websites that were listed on the A2Z class syllabus like Regex Golf and Regex Crossword — and all of them were so hard! I learned a lot by doing the more basic tutorials listed on RegexOne.
Screenshot of Regexone.com
I’m not quite sure why I’m having a hard time thinking about what I could be doing with Regex. Perhaps it’s due to the lack of visuals and I’m a visual person? Or the fact that I can’t quite think of massive lists of files that I could sort through for fun? I’m not quite sure yet.