Regular Expressions
How many times have you had to dig through a long, confusing string for information? This has been a common problem for years. What’s the solution? Regular expressions.
To put it very simply, regular expressions are strings that search for patterns. Patterns can be a few letters or enormous strings with many wild cards. In this tutorial, I will outline some basics of regular expressions (also known as regexes).
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