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By Clive Darke (‎cdarke‎) from DevonCornwall.pm
Date: Monday, 15 August 2011 12:50
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Beginner
Language:

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An introduction that will include topics like:

* The flags s,m,i,g,x, and the others
* $`, $', $1, $2, ...
* [], {}, ()

Outline:
Introduction to Perl Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions in Perl
Regular Expression patterns
Matching a single character
Quantifiers
What did we match?
Optional match variables
Back-references
More capturing groups
Non-capturing groups
Modifiers for regular expressions
Multi-line matches
Alternatives to ^ and $
Global matches
Comments in Regular Expressions
Substitution using expressions

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Learn more about this and the other Beginner Track talks in the description of brian d foy (‎brian d foy‎) - ‎Getting the most out of YAPC‎

Attended by:

• Michal Gawlik
• Eriks Remess