How to use Regular Expression Regex
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Regular Expressions (regex or regexp) are a very useful tool to identify specific patterns in any text, which helps to extract information regardless the format of the text.
Regex can be used to validate inputs, web scraping, finding specific strings in documents, syntax validation for compilers, and so many others examples.
Helpful resources
Regex editor to build and test: regular expression 101
Regex visualization tools to breakdown and understand:
- RegExr
- help you to understand exactly what is happening in the regex
- Debuggex
- when I already have a decent understanding of how to accomplish what I want and just want a simple way to edit & test, I think the interface is less busy for that case
- Regulex
- Regex-Vis
Regular expression syntax cheatsheet
- Cheatography
- Mozilla MDN Web Docs
- basics from Debuggex
- basics from rackspace
- pdf from Stanford
- tips from Smashing Magazine