Data Extraction
My very first programming project was to use regular expressions to extract data about books from a very large (1MB) text file. That project could be the reason I am particularly fond of capturing groups. When I saw regular expressions turn an unusable 30,000-page report into a useful spreadsheet, I was hooked.
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