(back to Regular Expressions)
\d+ will match any number, regardless of how many digits
How else could you write this to ensure that it is only a one- or two-digit number?
Find all the URLs in the file bibliography.txt.
Can you find all the http URLs as well as the DOIs?
phoneNumbers.txt – Find variously formatted telephone numbers and make sure they have the same kind of dashes and punctuation.
In groups… the following challenges:
in the file HTML.html – HTML tags are supposed to be all lowercase. Can you find and fix the tags in this file?
Use \L in front of your replacement strings to convert them to lowercase.
(apologies to Tara for not having this ready two weeks ago)
See the file: AliceDownRabbitHole.txt – which is just the first bit of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Find where the author typed 4 (or 5, or 3) spaces at the beginning of a paragraph, and get rid of those. Paragraph indents should be handled by a stylesheet, not by typing extra characters.
Find the quotation marks – which are ` and ‘ – and change that to proper quotation marks.
Find where there are two spaces after a period and reduce to one.
Find underlined phrases and change them to… uppercase? Or use asterisks to indicate italics instead?