Chapter 15. Regular Expressions
Chapter Topics
15.1 Introduction/Motivation
Manipulating text/data is a big thing. If you don’t believe me, look very carefully at what computers primarily do today. Word processing, “fill-out-form” Web pages, streams of information coming from a database dump, stock quote information, news feeds—the list goes on and on. Because we may not know the exact text or data that we have programmed our machines to process, it becomes advantageous to be able to express this text or data in patterns that a machine can recognize and take action upon.
If I were running an electronic mail (e-mail) ...
Get Core Python Programming, Second Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
