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Challenge: Characters

Challenge: Characters - Regular Expressions Tutorial

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Challenge: Characters

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] It's time for our first challenge assignment. I'm going to give you a set of challenges for you to try on your own, and then in the next movie, I'll show you the solution that I came up with. For the challenge assignment, we're going to be using one of the files in the exercise files, Emerson's "Self-Reliance" essay. You can open that up in a text editor, and you can actually search inside your text editor if you have the ability to do that. A lot of times, there'll be a menu or a shortcut that will allow you to find. And if we do the find here, you see that it allows me to do finds. And it allows me to perform regular expressions by clicking this button right here. So you can use it in a text editor, or you can take all of this text and copy it, and then paste it into the text of our regular expression tool. Now it's a long text, so it is going to make it a little bit slow to search…

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