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An Introduction to Regular Expressions
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An Introduction to Regular Expressions

by Thomas Nield
June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
10 pages
14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Overview

The ubiquity of regular expressions must mean they offer universal utility, and, surprisingly, they do not have a steep learning curve. If you frequently find yourself manually scanning documents or parsing substrings just to identify text patterns, you might want to give them a look. Especially in data science and data engineering, they can assist in a wide spectrum of tasks, from wrangling data to qualifying and categorizing it. This report covers enough regular expression features to make them useful for a great majority of tasks you may encounter.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781492082569