Introduction to regular expressions

Regular expressions are a language used to match specific occurrences of strings by following their pattern across the whole string. When a match is found, the resulting matched string will be returned back to user and will be held inside a structure in Python format, such as tuple, list, or dictionary. The following table summarizes the most common patterns in regular expressions:

Also, one of the important rules in regular expressions is you can write your own regex and surround it with parentheses (), which is called the capturing group and helps you to hold important data to reference it later using ...

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