Regular Expressions

Beyond the Black Box Workshop: Regular Expressions

Professor Martin Eve, Birkbeck, University of London

Regular expressions offer a way of manipulating and editing large amounts of text very quickly, somewhat like a word processor’s ‘find and replace’ function but with greater sophistication and flexibility. They are particularly useful for those working with large texts or corpora who may need to make similar, though not identical, changes, across multiple documents (eg. correcting recurrent OCR errors). This workshop will teach participants the basics of regex scripting and demonstrate some of the ways it is useful in scholarly contexts.

This workshop will require participants to bring their own laptops.

Room details TBC