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What Does Your Data Entry Strategy Look Like?Have you ever wanted to capture all the names mentioned in one or more text files, or maybe the telephone numbers? Using this powerful wildcard search method of regular expressions on your data lets you explore it in new ways, and can be very beneficial to your job performance.
You can also use regular expressions in a find & replace search, allowing you to reformat your data in any way you want to. In this WebQuest, you will start by using the wildcard searching in Microsoft Word, which is installed on many people's computers already and is a good playground for this concept. Then you will explore using real regular expressions on sample data. |