Understanding Regular Expressions Part 1
A Brief Introduction
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5 min readApr 28, 2020
I’m going to be honest with you, dear reader. I hate regular expressions. To me, they are complicated and unnecessarily confusing in many ways. I have always strived to avoid using them at all costs by using alternatives. For me, even a complex set of nested conditionals is preferable to a one-line regular expression that I have to bang my head against the wall to finally get the pattern correct.