Regular Expressions (RegEx) in Python: Advanced Concepts
Last Updated on July 26, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Hrishikesh Patel
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Many websites ask for a password with at least eight characters and special requirements. But have you ever wondered how websites validate your passwords against these requirements? The answer is Regular Expression or RegEx. The regex is a crucial skill to learn for any programmers and data scientists to workwith text (strings). You can also use it to clean text data in natural language processing!
In this story, I will cover some advanced regex skills on top of basic regex, which I introduced in my following story. I… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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