GLA Summit

To the nascent eye, regular expressions (or regexes for short) are confusing. And amazing. A weird combination of brackets and certain symbols, interspersed with letters or numbers produces a bewildering array of matches or lets you replace text like magic. But, learn the syntax, even a little, and you soon realize how powerful regular expressions can be. I would classify the time I spent understanding regex as yielding the greatest ROI. I have found an astounding number of scenarios over the years where my knowledge of regex has shortened the time taken to complete a task, or helped me provide a more flexible, elegant solution.

In this presentation, I would like to introduce you to regular expressions, show how you can learn and master it by yourself, and walk you through LabVIEW specific challenges to help you harness the full power of regex.