Chapter 16. Regular Expressions
Regular expressions provide you with powerful ways to find and modify patterns in text—not only short bits of text such as might be entered at a command prompt but also huge stores of text such as might be found in files on disk.
A regular expression takes the form of a pattern that is compared with a string. Regular expressions also provide the means by which you can modify strings so that, for example, you might change specific characters by putting them into uppercase, you might replace every occurrence of “Diamond” with “Ruby,” or you might read in a file of programming code, extract all the comments, and write ...
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