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Course:  

Regular Expressions in Perl

Lecturer:

Jeremy Holland

Date:

6:30 - 8:30 PM, Thursday, March 23

Location:

Courtyard Marriott, 387 Winter Street, Waltham, MA  02451

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

The lectures will discuss regular expressions, focusing on to use them in Perl. Topic include basic regular expressions, character classes, regex operators, backreferencing, etc.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Anyone who has some experience using Perl and wants to build more sophisticated text-processing applications or parsers using regular expressions.

PREREQUISITE:

Attendees should have experience programming in Perl. Basic knowledg of regular expressions is helpful, but not required.

Class notes will be provided.

COURSE OUTLINE:

  • Basic regular expressions

  • Regex operators and split()

  • Context

  • Regex variables and backreferencing

  • Greed

  • Lookahead/lookbehind

  • Substitution evaluations

  • Speed and efficieny considerations

  • Storing and embedding regexes

  • Tips on building regular expressions

SPEAKER’S BIOGRAPHY: Jeremy Holland graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a B.S. in Computer Science in 1997.  He has worked at Matec Instrument Companies of Northborough, Massachusetts, creating software for ultrasonic inspection equipment; and at Analog Devices, Inc., of Wilmington, Massachusetts, developing software management and data control tools (primarily in Perl) for the Worldwide Manufacturing department.  He recently received an M.S. in Engineering Management from The Gordon Institute of Tufts University.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for  this Courses is Monday, March 13, 2006

Course Fee Schedule:

REGISTRATION RECEIVED BY
March 8, 2006

REGISTRATION. RECEIVED AFTER
March 8, 2006

IEEE MEMBERS $70

IEEE MEMBERS $80

NON-MEMBERS $80

NON-MEMBERS $90

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