regular expression

Fundamentals of Regular Expressions

Regular Expression Regular expression is a method of pattern matching. It allows you to define patterns of texts and search for it in other texts, no matter the complexity or the amount of text there is to process. Using regular expression is considered a more efficient solution, when there’s complexity in searching for a text that you want to find. It is also called as regex. Keep in mind that regular expression is supported in almost every programming language. If you were to face a situation when there’s complexity in searching a text, take a look at how the systax looks like other programming languages and utilize them. ...

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