Regular Expression, commonly known as RegEx is considered to be one of the most complex concepts. However, this is not really true. Unless you have worked with regular expressions before, when you look at a regular expression containing a sequence of special characters like /, $, ^, \, ?, *, etc., in combination with alphanumeric characters, you might think it a mess. RegEx is a kind of language and if you have learnt its symbols and understood their meaning, you would find it as the most useful tool in hand to solve many complex problems related to text searches. Just consider how you would make a search for files on your computer. You most likely use the ? and * characters to help find the files you're looking for. The ? character matches a single character in a file name, while the * matches zero or more characters. A pattern such as 'file?.txt' would find the following files: file1.txt filer.txt files.txt Using the * character inst...
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