Assessment Questions for Regular Expressions

May 14, 2014 • Jeremiah Lant

The following are assessment questions for the concept map for regular expressions by Shyam Rallapalli

Question 1: Which of the following can regular expressions be used for? Select all that apply.

a) extracting lines of text from a data file that match a particular pattern

b) sorting lines of text in a data file

c) finding every instance of a string in a file that matches a particular pattern

d) displaying a plot of a sine wave

 

Question 2: Which of the following strings will be matched by the regular expression below? Select all that apply.

[0-9]{1,2}-[0-9]{1,2}-[0-9]{4}

a) 05/15/2014

b) 05-15-2014

c) May 15, 2014

d) 5-1-2014