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Python Regular Expressions in Python Introduction to Regular Expressions Review: Regular Expressions in Python

Can't get this right

What is the regex

2 Answers

Kenneth Love
STAFF
Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest Teacher

I'm sorry, what exactly is your question?

A quick google search returned the following and that is just about right.

A regular expression (sometimes abbreviated to "regex") is a way for a computer user or programmer to express how a computer program should look for a specified pattern in text and then what the program is to do when each pattern match is found.