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Proto133 / REGEX-ellaboration.md
Last active August 5, 2021 04:17
REGEX Ellaboration

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REGEX Ellaboration

Regular Expressions (REGEX) are one of the most powerful tools available to web developers for parsing text. They can be used to extract, search and replace data from a large number of sources - including files such as CSV, HTML or JSON. This gist will use one ornate example to show you how they work so, hopefully, become a bit more familiar with REGEX and how they work.

Summary

As previously mentioned, Regular expressions are a powerful and are used in many different areas of development. This gist will explore how the REGEX pattern used to parse Illinois driver's license numbers is constructed, but will also provide infor