Finally, note that we used Python raw strings to construct our regex. This is because the syntax of a regex, since it uses backslashes, can conflict with the way ordinary strings are escaped in ...

In Java, I was surprised by how close the performance was for standard regular expressions to using string primitives. String primitives took 188 ms to process the 100,000 lines. Standard regular ...

A full-blown programming language like Java or Python can do many things, but regex does one thing only: match text against patterns. An individual regular expression is expressed as a string of ...

Regular expressions, or ‘regex’, are like an in-line programming language for text searches that allow you to include complex search strings, partial matches and wildcards, case-insensitive ...