Regular Expressions for Pattern Matching
Learn how regular expressions let your automations find, extract, and validate text patterns like emails, phone numbers, and codes, unlocking powerful data transformation.
What Is a Regular Expression?
A regular expression, or regex, is a compact pattern that describes a set of strings. Automation platforms use regex to find, extract, replace, or validate text.
It is like a search query on steroids — far more flexible than simple find-and-replace.
Why Regex in Automation?
Incoming data is often messy. Regex helps you:
- Pull an order number out of an email subject
- Validate that a field looks like an email address
- Strip unwanted characters from a string
It turns unstructured text into clean, usable data.
All lessons in this course
- Complex Text and String Manipulation
- Date and Time Operations
- Advanced Conditional Logic & Routers
- Regular Expressions for Pattern Matching