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              August 17, 2022 06:13
            
              
                A gist that breaks down how to parse a regex that finds emails
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Parsing an Email with Regex

Regular expresssions are an important part of software development. They allow us to search for specififc patterns so that we can create more robust queries.
Summary

In this gist, I will break down how the regex below works. It allows a user to find and match emails.
/^([a-z0-9_\.-]+)@([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})$/