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RegEx
or regular expressions is a powerful tool
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for text manipulation
that allows you to search,
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match and manipulate patterns
within strings of text.
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So a brief summary of Regex
text manipulation,
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which will go on to in a minute
and how you can use it within Infigo.
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So there's a few things
that you can do with it.
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So pattern matching being one
regex enables you to search for specific
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patterns or sequences of characters
within a text string
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by defining a pattern
using special syntax and meta characters,
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you can find matches
within the target text.
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You can also do string searching,
so Regexs allows you to perform advanced
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search operations, which is finding
all occurrences of a specific word
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or identifying patterns
that follow certain rules.
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It provides
more flexibility than simple string
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searches, validation
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and extraction, so regex can be used to
validate and extract specific information
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from text for example,
you can validate email addresses, URLs
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or phone numbers
by defining regex patterns
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match the expected format.
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We've also got
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text manipulation,
so with regex you can manipulate text
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by replacing or modifying
specific patterns within a string.
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This includes tasks like find and replace
operations, formatting
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and reformatting text and transforming
data into the desired format.
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You've got text parsing,
so Regexs is often used for passing
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structured data from unstructured text
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by refining regex patterns
to match specific
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data patterns, you can extract meaningful
information from text such
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as extracting dates, addresses
or other structured data.
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And you've also got data
cleaning operations.
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So regex is useful for data
cleaning tasks, such as removing
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unnecessary characters, normalizing
data formats, removing duplicates
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or correcting inconsistencies
in textual data.
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So regex provides
a versatile and flexible way
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to perform complex, complex
text manipulation tasks.
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By mastering regex or learning
how to utilize regex,
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You can efficiently search, validate and
manipulate text based on specific patents,
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making it a valuable tool for various
programing and text processing operations.
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Now, regex is not something that specific
to Infigo so there are loads of internet
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resources available to assist you
with the creation of expression.
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What I'm going to talk about here
is how we've incorporated
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this regex functionality
into in Infigo Invent.
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So the example I'm
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going to utilize
here is the formatting of a phone number.
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So in my example,
I have a basic business card,
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but on the back of that business card
we have a telephone number.
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And what we might want to make sure
is that all every telephone number
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that's input
is put into a consistent format.
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And this is just one of the many
potential applications for regex.
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How we would actually set that up
within Invent itself
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is within a variable itself.
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So if I create a new variable
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within Invent, I could say add variable
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and then choose a text variable.
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In my example, I'm just going to edit
my existing variable
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that I've created again
into the text variable type.
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And then what you'll find on the bottom
left of this screen that pops up
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is Regexs text manipulation.
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And this gives you the ability to so it's
between a few predefined expressions
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or you can generate your own expression
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if you've got the ability to do so.
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So we've got regex text manipulation,
which is showing you the applied rules
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and we've got a series of predefined
default manipulations.
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All of this stage is picked
the length of the phone number
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I'm expecting click add
and then I will add it to the existing
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regex text manipulations
that will be applied to that variable.
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Now you don't have to stick
with the default formats.
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If you want to tweak it slightly,
you can just click on edit
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and that will take you
to this additional screen where you can
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modify and tweak those expressions
slightly.
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In addition, if you want to add your own
regex text manipulation expression,
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you can click on Add
a regex text manipulation at the bottom
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where you can define
your own string for use.
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So what I've selected
here is the ten digit phone number,
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and then just as my default value,
just as a point of reference, I've put in
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ten digits, which will in this case
represent our telephone number.
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And then I'm
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going to click on Save from the Bottom
right to save the variable
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and then just make sure that you've linked
that variable to the relevant
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frame on your artwork itself.
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Now, all I've done at this stage and I'm
going to set these steps as covered
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in different
tutorials, is export that template
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and then import it back into MegaEdit
and launch
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the MegaEdit editor.
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And then what we'll see in here
once we launch this is over on the right
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hand side.
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I have my text inputs
with my telephone number,
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but then if I look at it
on the actual artwork itself,
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we can see that those regex text
manipulation
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expressions have been applied to that
telephone number.
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So it's reformatted
completely from what I've entered here
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into our desired format.
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You can see
if I had more than ten characters,
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it reverts because it's only
about the ten character limit.
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Or if I change some of the characters,
it will format it in the same way.
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So that's a very basic example
of how we could utilize regex expressions.
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As I mentioned, the possibilities
are much, much greater with this,
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and there's plenty of Internet
resources to assist you in that task.