September 2017
Beginner
402 pages
9h 52m
English
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Extracting substrings with capturing
Matching against regexes is not enough. The real power of regular expressions is not complete without the ability to extract the substrings that agreed with the regex pattern. Saving the parts of the string in special variables is called capturing.