1. What are Regular Expressions The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text. These search patterns are written using a special format which a regular expression parser understands. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels Regular expressions are originating from Unix systems, where a program was designed, called grep, to help users
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