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Everything you need to know about regular expressions — from basic syntax and anchors to pattern validation, debugging, and common production recipes.

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Regex (short for Regular Expression, also known as regexp or rational expression) is a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern. It is widely used in software development, text editors, databases, and scripting to search, extract, parse, and validate strings according to formal rules.