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→INVESTIGATION 1: SIMPLE & COMPLEX REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
#Issue the following linux pipeline command to match the pattern the within '''textfile1.txt''':<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">grep "the" textfile1.txt | more<br><br>
# Now, issue the grep linux pipeline command with the '''-i''' option to ignore case sensitively:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">grep -i "the" textfile1.txt | more</span><br><br>What do you notice is different with this pipeline command?<br><br>You will notice that the pattern "the" is matched including larger words that contain the pattern "the". You can use the -w option with the grep command in order to just match only words for a pattern.<br><br>
# Issue the following linux pipeline command:<br><span style="color:blue;font-weight:bold;font-family:courier;">grep -w -i "the" textfile1.txt | more</span><br><br>You should now see only strings of text that match the word '''"the"'''.<br><br>The problem with using literals Just matching literal or simple regular expressions is that general patterns can be useful, but are matchedlimited in what they can assist with pattern matching.<br>For Example, you may want to search for pattern at a specific location within the string of text (like at the beginning or end of the string).<br><br>There are other regular expression tools to provide more precise matches. These tools are '''complex''' and '''extended''' regular expressions. We will now look at complex regular expression symbols now, and we will discuss complex regular in the next section of this tutorial.<br><br>
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