Here are some regex exercises:
1. Match a string consisting entirely of digits.
2. Match a string with only alphanumeric characters and with length at
least 4.
3. Match a string containing two words that are the same.
4. Match a string containing 4 consecutive lowercase consonants.
5. Match a person's name, for example Harry Potter. The name is
assumed to
consist of two words, each starting with a capital letter and
consisting
entirely of letters (from the usual alphabet, without accents). There
may be
one or more white space characters separating the two parts.
6. Match a valid postal code, for example M5R 1E4 (with one space in
between).
7. Match a valid postal code with all digits the same, for example M5R
5E5.
8. Match a string that represents time in HH:mm:ss format. HH is hours
between
01 and 12. mm and ss represent minutes and seconds, and each is
between 00
and 59. Valid examples include 01:26:18 and 11:00:39. Invalid examples
include 13:01:01, 00:00:00, and 01:00:60.
9. Consider this file format:
ANA300Y1<T>Y<T>Human Anat Histol <T>LEC<T>0101<T>0350<T>0325<T>000
ANA301H1<T>S<T>Human Embryology <T>LEC<T>0101<T>0500<T>0500<T>054
ANA498Y1<T>Y<T>Research Project <T>LEC<T>0101<T>9999<T>0012<T>000
ANT100Y1<T>Y<T>Intro Anthropology <T>LEC<T>5101<T>1250<T>1129<T>000
ANT200Y1<T>Y<T>Intro Archaeology <T>LEC<T>5101<T>0300<T>0281<T>000
CSC148H1<T>S<T>Intro to Comp Sci <T>LEC<T>0102<T>0100<T>0061<T>000
CSC148H1<T>S<T>Intro to Comp Sci <T>LEC<T>5101<T>0120<T>0117<T>000
CSC148H1<T>S<T>Intro to Comp Sci <T>TUT<T>0101<T>0060<T>0060<T>000
CSC148H1<T>S<T>Intro to Comp Sci <T>TUT<T>0201<T>0048<T>0019<T>000
CSC207H1<T>F<T>Software Design <T>LEC<T>0101<T>0120<T>0096<T>000
CSC207H1<T>F<T>Software Design <T>LEC<T>5101<T>0085<T>0043<T>000
Lecture Term Course title LEC/TUT SEC CAP ENRLMT WAITING_LIST
You can assume that the number of characters before the first tab
character and between successive tab characters is always the same in
every line of the file.
(a) Write a regular expression to match the lecture ("LEC") sections
of
fall-term courses with names beginning "Intro". Group the course codes
("XXX123..") and section numbers (for example, 5203) so that they can
be extracted from the matched substring.
(b) The third-to-last and second-to-last columns indicate the
enrolment
cap and the actual enrolment. Write a regular expression to match
every line where the enrolment is at the cap.
(c) Write a regular expression to match any line where the course
title
is shorter than 10 characters, not including trailing blanks. For
example, the course title for CSC148H1 is "Intro to Comp Sci". There
is no need to group any part of the string, though you may do so if
you find it helps. (There are 20 characters in the course title area
of each line. At least the first character of the title must be
non-blank.)
