Summary
In this hour, you learned what regular expressions are, how they're constructed, and how they're used in Perl. Regular expressions are made up of normal characters and metacharacters. The normal characters all stand for themselves (usually), and the metacharacters alter the meanings of the normal characters (or each other). These regular expressions can be used to test for the presence of patterns or substitution.
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