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Learning Ruby
Regular Expressions
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PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES|Regular Expressions
Regular Expressions
· A regular expression is a special sequence
of characters that helps you match or find
other strings or sets of strings, using a
specialized syntax held in a pattern
· You use them in
­ asking if a string contains certain features
extracting words which fit the given patterns­ extracting words which fit the given patterns
from the string
Types & Regular Expressions 2
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Uses of regular expressions

Source: Allan, Vicki H. - Department of Computer Science, Utah State University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences