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Joe’s Notes on Perl #5 – Regular Expressions (Regex)

Saturday 11 May, 2013
Joseph Southan
Perl No Comments

Coming up is something that could be considered infuriating but very useful, if not the whole point of Perl.

Regular expressions (Regex) in effect, scan a scalar looking for patterns of text using specific rules.

I’m not going to do too many examples due to how variable Regexs can be.

Regexes hurt

This will be you in no time! – XKCD

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