Regular expressions are a sequence of characters used to search for a specific pattern in text and are widely used throughout many programming languages. This is a language-agnostic workshop in which code examples will be given in both python and R. We will walk through techniques to search common patterns in text and how to develop your own regular expressions for your specific cases. Regular expressions are a sequence of characters used to search for a specific pattern in text and are widely used throughout many programming languages. This is a language-agnostic workshop in which code examples will be given in both python and R. We will walk through techniques to search common patterns in text and how to develop your own regular expressions for your specific cases.

Expected prior knowledge: None required but some experience in any language recommended.