while the standard regular expression came in at 904 ms. Compiled regular expressions still performed comparatively well in Python, though. This method processed the 100,000 lines in 165 ms, about two ...

Some say a set of regular expressions comprises a domain-specific language, or DSL; essentially, a mini-programming language. A full-blown programming language like Java or Python can do many ...

Regex expressions are a language all their own and the first time you see one, it can look quite alien. But they are quite easy to learn and can be used across JavaScript, Python and other ...