In this chapter, you will be introduced to regular expressions (or regex in short). You will learn about some real-world problems that can be solved by using regular expressions and the basic building blocks of regular expressions.
We will be covering the following topics in this chapter:
- Introduction to regular expressions
- A brief history of regular expressions
- The various flavors of regular expressions
- What type of problems need regular expressions to solve
- The basic rules of writing regular expressions
- Standard regular expression meta characters
- Basic regular expression examples
