Introduction to Perl for Bioinformatics
Regular Expressions
- Definitions and uses
- Match to a sequence of characters
- Match to a character class
- Predefined character classes
- Quantifiers
- The dot special character
- Case-insensitive pattern matching
- Alternation
- Anchoring a pattern to the beginning or end of a string
- Parenthesis as memory
- Greediness and laziness
- Parenthesis as memory - notes
- Substitutions
- Variable interpolation
Meta-characters
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