Preface
Most popular programming languages support regular expressions, and there’s a good reason for that: regular expressions are incredibly powerful at text processing. With regular expressions, you can greatly reduce the time and effort required for complex string parsing tasks that would otherwise take dozens of lines of code.
But, as a JavaScript developer, you may not need to jump into writing regular expression patterns whenever you need to process texts. JavaScript already provides excellent built-in tools that meet many of your text manipulation needs.
In this book, you’ll explore when and how to use each tool by working through real-world scenarios. You’ll learn the mechanics of JavaScript’s regex in detail via cookbook-style recipes ...
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