Regular expressions is something that even seasoned coders sometimes find intimidating. Many developers simply use pre-made regexes without actually understanding how they work. Yet regular expressions is a very powerful tool to work with text data that follows some patterns. With regular expressions you can describe those patterns and then search for them in text, extract them or replace.
In this lecture I tried to share some practical basics of using regular expressions in Coda. After watching this video hopefully you can start reading and composing regular expressions for your specific needs.
