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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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(Don't Fear) The Regex: A Practical Introduction to Regular Expressions

(Don't Fear) The Regex: A Practical Introduction to Regular Expressions

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Javascript: When Less is More

Javascript: When Less is More

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Don't Be Afraid of Regular Expressions
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Don't Be Afraid of Regular Expressions

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Using Regex to Prevent User-Error during E-commerce Site-Content Turnovers

Using Regex to Prevent User-Error during E-commerce Site-Content Turnovers

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TIL: Unicode chars in regex

TIL: Unicode chars in regex

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Day 2: Java Validation

Day 2: Java Validation

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Basic RegExp in JS

Basic RegExp in JS

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Why I Default to The Old Ways

Why I Default to The Old Ways

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Removing Short Imports in NativeScript, the Easy Way (with VS Code)
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Removing Short Imports in NativeScript, the Easy Way (with VS Code)

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Laravel enforcing strict passwords with Regex

Laravel enforcing strict passwords with Regex

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I ain't afraid of no regex
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I ain't afraid of no regex

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RegEx Necessities Part 1

RegEx Necessities Part 1

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Cool Regex performance hack for "not preceded with"

Cool Regex performance hack for "not preceded with"

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FileSearching With Python
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FileSearching With Python

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Form Validation, You're Doing it Wrong, Part Two

Form Validation, You're Doing it Wrong, Part Two

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Learning regex with doggos

Learning regex with doggos

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Learning to Love RegEx: a Find and Replace example

Learning to Love RegEx: a Find and Replace example

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Regular expressions Tutorial For Linux

Regular expressions Tutorial For Linux

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RegEx match all words with a prefix
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RegEx match all words with a prefix

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Replace anchor tags with square bracket format
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Replace anchor tags with square bracket format

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Remove params from URL in JavaScript
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Remove params from URL in JavaScript

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Check for valid url with JavaScript + RegEx
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Check for valid url with JavaScript + RegEx

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Regex split by spaces except inside quote marks
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Regex split by spaces except inside quote marks

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