Hour of Regex

Hour of Regex provides interactive lessons on basic regular expression syntax.

Inspired by apps that get people to start coding, Hour of Regex is a great place for you to get started with regex!

Available in across many languages (Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Perl, C etc.) regular expressions are an essential tool for any programmer's toolkit.

Sample regex use-cases for a programmer:

- email/URL verification

- text processing

- compatible with many command line tools and editors

(Ex. grep, sed, vim)

Sample regex use-cases for a non-programmer:

- searching for expressions in a text editor

(Ex. Sublime Text, Notepad++, Microsoft Word)

- bioinformatics

(Ex. Searching for a gene or motif across many genomes)