The life-changing magic of RegEx

Regular expressions (RegEx) are a tool for matching patterns rather than exact strings of characters, and can be used in a lot of applications and programs to do some amazing things! Join conveners Kathryn Lybarger (University of Kentucky) and Mike Monaco (The University of Akron) for a workshop where we'll go over the basics of what a RegEx is (playing RegEx Bingo!), some programs that allow you to use them, and some ways you can use them in library work. Then we'll dive into some hands-on use cases where you will experiment with RegEx on your own device to extract data from large documents, make systematic changes to data, do searches you didn't know were possible, and more!

Session style/format: We'll start by learning about RegEx and using them in practice with Kathryn's RegEx Bingo game, and then move on to working individually or in small groups to apply what we learned to different tasks.

Takeaways: practical knowledge of RegEx

Contact information:

Mike Monaco

Coordinator, Cataloging Services

The University of Akron

Office: 330-972-2446

mmonaco@uakron.edu