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Regular Expressions: /regex Will Find Me

Regular expressions (regex or regexp) allow matching and manipulation of textual data through patterns. They are defined between forward slashes and can be used to scan strings for patterns, replace parts of strings, and split strings. Common regex syntax includes character classes like [a-z] to match letters, quantifiers like * and + to match repeated characters, anchors like ^ and $ to match start/end of line, and capture groups (). Functions like .match, =~, .scan, .split, and .gsub can be used to apply regex patterns in Ruby.

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Regular Expressions: /regex Will Find Me

Regular expressions (regex or regexp) allow matching and manipulation of textual data through patterns. They are defined between forward slashes and can be used to scan strings for patterns, replace parts of strings, and split strings. Common regex syntax includes character classes like [a-z] to match letters, quantifiers like * and + to match repeated characters, anchors like ^ and $ to match start/end of line, and capture groups (). Functions like .match, =~, .scan, .split, and .gsub can be used to apply regex patterns in Ruby.

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Regular Expressions

/regex will find me/

What are Regular Expressions


Regular expressions allow matching and

manipulation of textual data. Abbreviated as regex or regexp, or alternatively, just patterns

Regular Expressions in Ruby

Using Regular Expressions


Scan a string for multiple occurrences of a

pattern. Replace part of a string with another string. Split a string based on a matching separator.

Regular Expression Syntax


Regular expressions are put between two

forward slashes (/match_me/)


They are escaped with a backward slash (\).

Characters That Need to be Escaped


.|()[]{}+\^$*?

Regex Basics
[abc] A single character: a, b or c

[^abc] Any single character but a, b, or c


[a-z] Any single character in the range a-z [a-zA-Z] Any single character in the range a-z or

A-Z ^ Start of line $ End of line \A Start of string \z End of string

Regex Basics cont...


. Any single character

\s Any whitespace character


\S Any non-whitespace character \d Any digit \D Any non-digit \w Any word character (letter, number,

underscore) \W Any non-word character \b Any word boundary character

Regex Basics cont...


(...) Capture everything enclosed

(a|b) a or b
a? Zero or one of a a* Zero or more of a a+ One or more of a a{3} Exactly 3 of a a{3,} 3 or more of a a{3,6} Between 3 and 6 of a

Regex: .match
>> category = "power tools" => "power tools" >> puts "on Sale" if category.match(/power tools/) on Sale >> puts "on Sale" if /power tools/.match(category) on Sale

Regex: =~
>> category = "shoes" => "shoes" >> puts "15 % off" if category =~ /shoes/ 15 % off >> puts "15 % off" if /shoes/ =~ category 15 % off >> /pants/ =~ category => nil >> /shoes/ =~ category => 0 >> category = "women's shoes >> /shoes/ =~ category => 8

8th character

Scan
>> numbers = "one two three" => "one two three" >> numbers.scan(/\w+/) => ["one", "two", "three]

Split with Regular Expressions


>> "one two\tthree".split(/\s/) => ["one", two", "three"]

gsub
fred,mary,john".gsub(/fred/, XXX) => XXX,mary,john

gsub with a block


"one two\tthree".gsub(/(\w+)/) do |w| puts w end one two three

Title Case
Capitalize All Words of a Sentence: >> full_name.gsub(/\b\w/){|s| s.upcase} => "Yukihiro Matsumoto"

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