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Regular Expressions

A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp also referred to as regular expression) is a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern.

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How CloudFlare could have avoided its outage (maybe)
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How CloudFlare could have avoided its outage (maybe)

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Use Javascript Regex to Find All IDs That Contain a String and Copy the Text to the Clipboard

Use Javascript Regex to Find All IDs That Contain a String and Copy the Text to the Clipboard

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There's only one way to validate an email address
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There's only one way to validate an email address

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How to write "four letter word" in regex?

How to write "four letter word" in regex?

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Mute tweets in Tweetbot by regular expressions

Mute tweets in Tweetbot by regular expressions

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Howto: Drop-down list Jira's components in Jenkins

Howto: Drop-down list Jira's components in Jenkins

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What are you using RegEx for?

What are you using RegEx for?

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Regular Expressions for Regular People
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Regular Expressions for Regular People

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Fun with JavaScript Regex
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Fun with JavaScript Regex

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The string-matching regex explained step by step
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The string-matching regex explained step by step

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Java Regex Cheat Sheet
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Java Regex Cheat Sheet

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Replacing text using regex groups in VSCode

Replacing text using regex groups in VSCode

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Ruby Regexp Part 9 - Modifiers
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Ruby Regexp Part 9 - Modifiers

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Ruby Regexp Part 8 - Lookarounds
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Ruby Regexp Part 8 - Lookarounds

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Ruby Regexp Part 7 - Groupings and backreferences
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Ruby Regexp Part 7 - Groupings and backreferences

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Ruby Regexp Part 6 - Character class
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Ruby Regexp Part 6 - Character class

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Ruby Regexp Part 5 - Matched portions
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Ruby Regexp Part 5 - Matched portions

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Ruby Regexp Part 2 - Anchors
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Ruby Regexp Part 2 - Anchors

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Ruby Regexp Part 4 - Quantifiers
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Ruby Regexp Part 4 - Quantifiers

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Ruby Regexp Part 3 - Alternatives and Escaping
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Ruby Regexp Part 3 - Alternatives and Escaping

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Ruby Regexp Part 1 - Introduction
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Ruby Regexp Part 1 - Introduction

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Decoding Regex Hieroglyphs
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Decoding Regex Hieroglyphs

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Parse user input for urls, timestamps & hashtags with RegEX 🧠
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Parse user input for urls, timestamps & hashtags with RegEX 🧠

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Regex Bootcamp (or Nobody Seems to be Using HTML5 Validation)

Regex Bootcamp (or Nobody Seems to be Using HTML5 Validation)

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Regex solution

Regex solution

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