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# URL Matching Regex

This GIST will endevour to explore the systematic exposition of the ideas and theorys surrounding regular expressions, using URL matching throughout this example.

## Summary

Regular expressions, or regex for short, are a series of literal characters, special characters and position fields that define a search pattern. These regular are not exclusivley tied to any programing laugage (JS,PYTHON,C++)
and are widley used throughout the coding community for validation (of input fields passwords and numerous other working examples).

Take the following example of a regular expression, which we’ll call “Matching a URL”: