<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Getting Started with Regular Expressions</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">Christine</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Moulen</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>I'm no expert, but I do find regular expressions useful for manipulating text, such as MARC records and XML files. I'll start with some pattern matching basics, and go into some of the more complex examples I've borrowed or created. Most of my experience and examples are with Perl and Aleph, but the concepts are applicable to other languages and systems.</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">General Topics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8601">2014-05-02</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Conference or Workshop Item</mods:genre></mods:mods>