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What is a Regular Expression (RegEx)?
What is a Regular Expression (RegEx)?
A Regular Expression (RegEx) is a sequence of characters that defines a search pattern.
What are the common uses of regular expressions?
What are the common uses of regular expressions?
The most common uses of regular expressions are: searching a string (search and match), finding a string (findall), breaking a string into substrings (split), and replacing part of a string (sub).
What are metacharacters in regular expressions?
What are metacharacters in regular expressions?
Metacharacters are characters that are interpreted in a special way by a RegEx engine.
How can a regular expression be formed?
How can a regular expression be formed?
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What does the metacharacter '[]' represent?
What does the metacharacter '[]' represent?
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Study Notes
Regular Expressions (RegEx)
- A regular expression (RegEx) is a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern, used to match, locate, and manage text patterns in strings.
Common Uses of Regular Expressions
- Validating input data to ensure it conforms to a specific format
- Searching and replacing text patterns in a string
- Extracting data from a large dataset
- Parsing text data to extract specific information
Metacharacters in Regular Expressions
- Metacharacters are special characters in RegEx that have a unique meaning and are used to specify patterns
- Common metacharacters include
.,*,+,?,{,},[,],|,(,)
Forming a Regular Expression
- A regular expression can be formed by combining literal characters, metacharacters, and character classes to define a pattern
- The pattern can be used to search, validate, or extract data from a string
Metacharacter '[]'
- The metacharacter
[]represents a character class, which matches any single character within the brackets - It is used to specify a set of characters that can be matched in a string
- For example,
[abc]matches any of the characters 'a', 'b', or 'c'
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Test your knowledge of regular expressions in Python with this quiz by Prof. Priyanka Panchal. Explore the fundamentals of RegEx, its applications in programming, and its usefulness in extracting information from various types of text data.
