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Regular Expression

Regular expressions (regex) allow users to define search patterns to match strings of text. The regex pattern ^a...s$ matches any five letter string starting with a and ending with s. Metacharacters like [], ^, $, *, +, ?, {} are used to define more complex patterns, matching things like character sets, start/end of strings, repetition, and grouping. Common metacharacters include square brackets for character sets, period for any single character, caret for start of string, and dollar for end of string.

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Regular Expression

Regular expressions (regex) allow users to define search patterns to match strings of text. The regex pattern ^a...s$ matches any five letter string starting with a and ending with s. Metacharacters like [], ^, $, *, +, ?, {} are used to define more complex patterns, matching things like character sets, start/end of strings, repetition, and grouping. Common metacharacters include square brackets for character sets, period for any single character, caret for start of string, and dollar for end of string.

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Regular Expression

Regular Expression
• A Regular Expression (RegEx) is a sequence of characters that defines
a search pattern.
• Ex: ^a…s$
.
• The above code defines a RegEx pattern. The pattern is: any five letter
string starting with a and ending with s.
• To specify regular expressions, metacharacters are used. In the above
example, ^ and $ are metacharacters .
• Metacharacters are characters that are interpreted in a special way by a RegEx
engine. Here's a list of metacharacters:
[] . ^ $ * + ? {} () \ |
• [] - Square brackets specifies a set of characters you wish to match.
• [abc] will match if the string you are trying to match contains any of
the a, b or c.
• You can also specify a range of characters using - inside square brackets.
[a-e] is the same as [abcde].
[1-4] is the same as [1234].
[0-39] is the same as [01239].
• You can complement (invert) the character set by using caret ^ symbol at the
start of a square-bracket.
[^abc] means any character except a or b or c.
[^0-9] means any non-digit character.
• special character is the period (/./), a wildcard expression that
matches any single character (except a carriage return)

• The caret symbol ^ is used to check if a string starts with a certain


character.
• The dollar symbol $ is used to check if a string ends with a certain
character.
• Example: RegEx [0-9]{2, 4} matches at least 2 digits but not more than 4
digits .
Operator precedence
Regular Expression
• https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/regex

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