Hadley Myers, JMP Senior Systems Engineer, SAS
Peter Hersh, JMP Senior Systems Engineer, JMP
Extracting pertinent information from unstructured text data can pose a daunting challenge. Someone may wish to mine blocks of text for websites, telephone numbers, emails, or physical addresses. It could be that units of measurement between documents need standardizing. The Regex function, quietly incorporated into JMP a few releases ago, is an extremely powerful tool to quickly and easily perform these and other tasks. It is also a tool that, for many, is shrouded in mystery. This presentation seeks to highlight this often overlooked and underrated function and decode its inner workings to allow anyone and everyone to tap into its full potential.
