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A quick guide to understanding regex

For this week's challenge of the ESMT Coding Boot Camp, I explain regular expressions, commonly known as regex. I will draw from diverse online resources, which I will link to for your further research, and I will detail the parts of a regex using a specific example of a regex for URL.

Not interested in the history of regex or key definitions? Click here to skip directly to the tutorial.

Table of Contents

1. History of regex
2. Definitions
3. Tutorial
   • Regex components

• Grouping and capturing