Have you ever wondered how search engines look up data in such a short amount of time? Or how text editors instantly find words when their search option is used? Or ever thought about how they deal with such a large amount of data and find only the relevant information?
Search engines or text editors ease this process by using regular expressions.
In this lesson, we will learn about regular expressions, with a focus on following key points:
- What are regular expressions and where are they used?
- Special characters and common patterns that are used in regular expressions.
- Implementing simple regular expressions in Python.