Regular Expression

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Regular expression is a sequence of character(s) mainly used to find and replace patterns in a string or file.
So we can say that the task of searching and extracting is so common that Python has a very powerful library called regular expressions that handles many of these tasks quite elegantly.

SYMBOL USAGE
$ Matches the end of the line
\s Matches whitespace
\S Matches any non-whitespace character
* Repeats a character zero or more times
\S Matches any non-whitespace character
*? Repeats a character zero or more times (non-greedy)
+ Repeats a character one or more times
+? Repeats a character one or more times (non-greedy)
[aeiou] Matches a single character in the listed set
[^XYZ] Matches a single character not in the listed set
[a-z0-9] The set of characters can include a range
( Indicates where string extraction is to start
) Indicates where string extraction is to end

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