September 2018
Beginner
196 pages
4h 23m
English
To search for and match patterns in text and other data, regular expressions are an indispensable tool for the data scientist. Julia adheres to the Perl syntax of regular expressions. For a complete reference, refer to http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html. Regular expressions are represented in Julia as a double (or triple) quoted string preceded by r, such as r"..." (optionally, followed by one or more of the i, s, m, or x flags), and they are of type Regex. The regexp.jl script shows some examples.
In the first example, we will match the email addresses (#> shows the result):
email_pattern = r".+@.+" input = "john.doe@mit.edu" println(occursin(email_pattern, input)) #> true
The regular expression pattern ...
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