The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

Regular expressions are like power tools: They may look scary, but are easy to use once you understand their basic building blocks. Regular expressions -- those scary strings that might as well be ...

How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs. Regular expressions, or “regex,” is a system for finding complex ...

You can do a lot more with regular expressions than you think. In this tutorial, you'll use it to convert a movie list into a CSV file for use in Excel. In Part 1 and Part 2 in this series about ...

If you’ve ever done any serious programming you’ll have run into something called regular expressions: … (abbreviated regex or regexp and sometimes called a rational expression) is a sequence of ...

Even though it has somewhat of a checkered reputation, being able to wield it will save you a ton of time. There's a saying that I've heard numerous times about regular expressions (regex). It goes ...

For this work with regular expressions, we will start with a browser-based tool. Below is a list of file names. We want to write a regular expression that captures parts of each string. Copy the text ...