What are the best resources for learning regular expressions?
21st February 2012
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The O’Reilly book on Regular Expressions is absolutely superb. It will help you build a much deeper understanding if how they actually work than any online tutorial I’ve seen.
Chapter 3 of “Text Processing in Python” is excellent too, and is available for free online:
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