{"id":55,"date":"2020-08-18T08:02:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T12:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2020-08-18T08:02:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T12:02:29","slug":"regular-expressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/55\/regular-expressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular Expressions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I already had some experience with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freecodecamp.org\/learn\/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures\/regular-expressions\/\" target=\"_blank\">regular expressions<\/a> years ago, so I thought the lesson on them in FreeCodeCamp.org wouldn&#8217;t take me all afternoon. I was wrong: they&#8217;re really hard. These were the first exercises where I had to look at the hints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my defense, for the first exercise where I looked at the hints, it was because the solution required the use of the parentheses operators, which hadn&#8217;t yet been introduced. Grrr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the second exercise where I looked at the hints, well, it was just hard. For me, anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already had some experience with regular expressions years ago, so I thought the lesson on them in FreeCodeCamp.org wouldn&#8217;t take me all afternoon. I was wrong: they&#8217;re really hard. These were the first exercises where I had to look at the hints. In my defense, for the first exercise where I looked at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-ux-engineer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/56"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}