Getting started with regex

This interactive tutorial serves as an introduction to regular expressions, specifically regular expressions in JavaScript. This will still teach you to write regular expressions that work in other languages, but you should be aware that there are differences.

The console to the left is just a JavaScript console. Tell us your name using setName('Your name') (substituting your name in) to get started with the tutorial.

There are a number of useful commands: run help() to view them.