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Python Regular Expressions with Examples

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Roel Van de Paar
Sep 15, 2020

A regular expression (often abbreviated to “regex”) is a technique, and a textual pattern, which defines how one wants to search or modify a given string. Regular expressions are commonly used in Bash shell scripts and in Python code, as well as in various other programming languages.

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