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Bryan PriceRegular expressions tutorial and help sheet
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Regular expressions trace back to the work of an American mathematician by the name of Stephen Kleene (one of the most influential figures in the development of theoretical computer science) who developed regular expressions as a notation for describing what he called "the algebra of regular sets." His work eventually found its way into some early efforts with computational search algorithms, and from there to some of the earliest text-manipulation tools on the Unix platform (including ed and grep). In the context of computer searches, the "*" is formally known as a "Kleene star."
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As you might guess from this example, concision is everything when it comes to crafting regular expressions, and while this syntax won't win any beauty prizes, it follows a logical and fairly standardized format which you can learn to read and write easily with just a little bit of practice.
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