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    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 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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