Practical Regex for IT Professionals

This repository contains exercises, sample data, and answer sheets for a 3-session Regex workshop.

🧩 Workshops Overview

Session	Topics	Output skills
1	Metacharacters, character classes, quantifiers, anchors	Basic matching, simple cleanup operations
2	Capturing groups, named groups, alternation, lookarounds	Extracting structured data from messy text
3	Multiline, DOTALL, backreferences, performance	Validations, automation, debugging patterns

Tools used

Participants can use any of the following:

• PowerShell
• Python (re module)
• Bash (grep -E, sed, awk)

📂 Structure

Each workshop folder includes:

• exercises.md (assignments)
• answers.md (hints + slow reveal)
• samples/ input data files

✅ Completion

Each workshop finishes with a challenge exercise.

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Feel free to contribute improvements or report issues!