Beginners Tutorial for Regular Expressions in Python
Importance of Regular Expressions
In last few years, there has been a dramatic shift in usage of general purpose programming languages for data science and machine learning. This was not always the case – a decade back this thought would have met a lot of skeptic eyes!
This means that more people / organizations are using tools like Python / JavaScript for solving their data needs. This is where Regular Expressions become super useful. Regular expressions are normally the default way of data cleaning and wrangling in most of these tools. Be it extraction of specific parts of text from web pages, making sense of twitter data or preparing your data for text mining – Regular expressions are your best bet for all these tasks.
Given their applicability, it makes sense to know them and use them appropriately.
What you will learn from this article?
In this article, I will walk you through usage, examples and applications of Regular Expressions. Regular Expression are very popular among programmers and can be applied in