<p>In this episode I’m going to show you how to check that a given string is indeed a real email. This could be useful for a sign up form in your app, or an order checkout page in your online shop.</p>

Regular expressions can be extremely useful whenever you need to make the computer do something with text. 

For example, when you need to check that what user typed is a real email, or automatically replace every uppercase letter F into a lowercase letter F. 

But as useful as they are, regular expressions can be extremely confusing and intimidating for beginners. 

In this podcast I’m going to explain regular expressions in a simple and accessible way, and help you start using them in your day-to-day work.