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Regex Library (Regular

Expressions)
Introduction:

https://regexr.com/

A regular expression is a way to search through a string of text.

💡 Syntax:

/regular expression/flags

We declare regular expressions in between forward slashes and after the


end, we set a flag.
Some common flags are: global, multiline etc.

We can stack multiple flags like /text/gi This way we can stack global
and case insensitive together.

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Regular Expression Characters:

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💡 /e/g //This search for an e in the string

/e+/g //This search for at least one ‘e’, and also searches for multiple in a
row

/e+a/g //This search for a combination of ea only

/e+a?/g//This ? makes the search for ‘a’ optional, anything behind the ?
is considered as optional

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//This 8 character is a combination of the + and ? character, this
/re*/g

makes search of e optional but if found it can search for as many as


possible

/.at/g//This . searches for any character before ‘at‘ except for a


newline

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If placed after a character it searches of a singular character.

/\./g When we want to match the real ‘.’

We can also combine special characters ex:

/.+\@/ This gets all characters before the @ symbols

💡 /\w/g

alphabet
This matches any alphabet \W This matches anything that is not a

/\s/gThis matches any whitespace \S This matches anything that is


not a whitespace

/\w{4,}/ This groups words with more than 4 characters

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💡 Grouping Characters:
We can group characters that we want to search for.

/[a-zA-Z0-9]/g This searches for anything characters inside thee brackets

/(t|T)he/g This also makes a group, | creates a our statement.

/(a|b|c){2,3}/g Can also include {}

/^[A-Za-z0-9]/g This starts checking from the start of the line

/\.$/g This checks from the end of line

Look Ahead and Look Behind:


Continue when free:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhzKDrUiJVk

const paragraph = '[email protected].';


const regex = /^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}$/g;
console.log( paragraph.match(regex));
// Expected output: null

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