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Regular Expression are a very powerful way of processing text while looking for recurring patterns; they are often used with data held in plain text files (such as log files), CSV files as well as Excel files. This chapter introduces regular expressions, discusses the syntax used to define a regular expression pattern and presents the Python re module and its use.
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Hunt, J. (2019). Regular Expressions in Python. In: Advanced Guide to Python 3 Programming. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25943-3_22
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