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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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Regex to match markdown links in Javascript

Regex to match markdown links in Javascript

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BREAKING DOWN REGULAR EXPRESSIONS[0] — ONE STEP AT A TIME

BREAKING DOWN REGULAR EXPRESSIONS[0] — ONE STEP AT A TIME

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Découper un fichier Word en plusieurs PDF…

Découper un fichier Word en plusieurs PDF…

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Validate a simple form using RegEx

Validate a simple form using RegEx

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Howto: Drop-down list with Gitlab projects in Jenkins

Howto: Drop-down list with Gitlab projects in Jenkins

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How CloudFlare could have avoided its outage (maybe)

How CloudFlare could have avoided its outage (maybe)

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Use Javascript Regex to Find All IDs That Contain a String and Copy the Text to the Clipboard

Use Javascript Regex to Find All IDs That Contain a String and Copy the Text to the Clipboard

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There's only one way to validate an email address

There's only one way to validate an email address

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How to write "four letter word" in regex?

How to write "four letter word" in regex?

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Mute tweets in Tweetbot by regular expressions

Mute tweets in Tweetbot by regular expressions

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Howto: Drop-down list Jira's components in Jenkins

Howto: Drop-down list Jira's components in Jenkins

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What are you using RegEx for?

What are you using RegEx for?

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Regular Expressions for Regular People

Regular Expressions for Regular People

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Fun with JavaScript Regex

Fun with JavaScript Regex

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The string-matching regex explained step by step

The string-matching regex explained step by step

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Java Regex Cheat Sheet

Java Regex Cheat Sheet

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Replacing text using regex groups in VSCode

Replacing text using regex groups in VSCode

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Ruby Regexp Part 9 - Modifiers

Ruby Regexp Part 9 - Modifiers

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Ruby Regexp Part 8 - Lookarounds

Ruby Regexp Part 8 - Lookarounds

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Ruby Regexp Part 7 - Groupings and backreferences

Ruby Regexp Part 7 - Groupings and backreferences

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Ruby Regexp Part 6 - Character class

Ruby Regexp Part 6 - Character class

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Ruby Regexp Part 5 - Matched portions

Ruby Regexp Part 5 - Matched portions

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Ruby Regexp Part 2 - Anchors

Ruby Regexp Part 2 - Anchors

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Ruby Regexp Part 4 - Quantifiers

Ruby Regexp Part 4 - Quantifiers

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Ruby Regexp Part 3 - Alternatives and Escaping

Ruby Regexp Part 3 - Alternatives and Escaping

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Ruby Regexp Part 1 - Introduction

Ruby Regexp Part 1 - Introduction

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Decoding Regex Hieroglyphs

Decoding Regex Hieroglyphs

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Parse user input for urls, timestamps & hashtags with RegEX 🧠

Parse user input for urls, timestamps & hashtags with RegEX 🧠

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Regex Bootcamp (or Nobody Seems to be Using HTML5 Validation)

Regex Bootcamp (or Nobody Seems to be Using HTML5 Validation)

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Regex solution

Regex solution

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Writing a Regular Expression to Target Images Without a Class

Writing a Regular Expression to Target Images Without a Class

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Regex tools

Regex tools

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How to create your instant form validation

How to create your instant form validation

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Regex…

Regex…

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Hello... RegExp!?

Hello... RegExp!?

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The more-proper introduction to ReX.js

The more-proper introduction to ReX.js

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Getting the Gist of Java

Getting the Gist of Java

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How are regex used in the real world?

How are regex used in the real world?

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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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