Chapter 1: Regular expressions?

Introduction

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Ready to take your programming skills to the next level?

Welcome to our lesson on regular expressions! This lesson will take your geekiness to a different level.

While regular expressions cannot be used to solve all problems, it is often used to solve many problems related to matching of strings.

Note that regular expression is a general concept, and so does not apply only to Python.

The first part of this lesson focusses on helping you understand how to construct regular expressions. Then, you will focus on applying your knowledge to solve different problems using regular expressions in Python.

Anyway, let’s just dive straight into the topic!