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Regex Tutorial

As a web development student, I have developed a tutorial explaining a specifics of regex so that we can understand the search pattern the regex defines

Summary

A Regex or regular expression is a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings. It also looks for input validations. It is a technique commonly developed in theoretical computer science.

We will look a a string of code using regex, this code looks for a match HTML tag.