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Regular Expressions

A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp also referred to as regular expression) is a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern.

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Adventures in Regular Expressions

Adventures in Regular Expressions

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The Power of Regular Expressions

The Power of Regular Expressions

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Refrex! Capture and non-capture groups in ES2018

Refrex! Capture and non-capture groups in ES2018

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Javascript lookaheads and lookbehinds

Javascript lookaheads and lookbehinds

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VerbalExpressions - RegularExpression made easy

VerbalExpressions - RegularExpression made easy

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Exercise: Making a Simple Regex Engine

Exercise: Making a Simple Regex Engine

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Regex Blah

Regex Blah

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Find, convert and replace dates with Vim substitutions

Find, convert and replace dates with Vim substitutions

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My RegExp nightmare

My RegExp nightmare

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Snake case to camel case and back using regular expressions and Python

Snake case to camel case and back using regular expressions and Python

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My Regex Cheatsheet - 25 Example Regex Rules

My Regex Cheatsheet - 25 Example Regex Rules

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Regular expressions: how do they work?

Regular expressions: how do they work?

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JavaScripts Regular Expressions Get More Power

JavaScripts Regular Expressions Get More Power

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TIL: Match unicode letters in regex

TIL: Match unicode letters in regex

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Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions

Exploring the Linguistics Behind Regular Expressions

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getting regex in a quick way

getting regex in a quick way

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What are your code smells and/or best practices with regular expressions?

What are your code smells and/or best practices with regular expressions?

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Learn Regular Expressions using Atom

Learn Regular Expressions using Atom

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Remove all console.log()s using Regex in Atom

Remove all console.log()s using Regex in Atom

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The beauty of VerbalExpressions

The beauty of VerbalExpressions

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Java REGEX based scanner

Java REGEX based scanner

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How To Build A RegEx

How To Build A RegEx

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My favourite computer science text (OR "how regex works")

My favourite computer science text (OR "how regex works")

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Getting started with Regex

Getting started with Regex

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Tutorial: Building a Slack Bot that Writes Custom Queries against your Database

Tutorial: Building a Slack Bot that Writes Custom Queries against your Database

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