Regular Expressions: An Unavoidable Technique

Posted: April 23, 2013 by Theodoulus in Excel, Others, VBA

A Regular Expression provides grammar for a formal language; this specification can be interpreted by a regular expression processor, which is a program that either serves as a parser generator or examines text and identifies substrings that are members of the specified (again, formal) language. Regular expressions are used by many text editors, utilities, and programming languages to search and manipulate text based on patterns.

Regular expressions are used while validating an input by the user, searching a substring in a string (Partial Search) etc.
The most common thing that we all do in our daily life is (CTRL+F), i.e. FIND or CTRL+H means REPLACE in any editor or application on the computer.
Lets say, there is a list of blogs and one wants to extract all the blogs those are at wordpress then it can be achieved using a Regular Expression given below:


Above given regular expression can be used in any programming language that supports regular expression.

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