Atomic Regular Expressions
Medium
8 min
Review
Regular expressions have the ability to track the path and some reflection. We'll try to use these features to capture and colorize text parts and output them to the console using AutoHotkey.
Regular expressions (regexp) — the basics
21 min
Translation
Regular expressions (also called regexp, or regex) are a mechanism for finding and replacing text. In a string, a file, multiple files... They are used by developers in application code, testers in autotests, and even just when working on the command line!
Why is this better than a simple search? Because it allows you to specify a pattern.
For example, you receive a date of birth in the DD.MM.YYYYY format. You need to pass it on, but in the YYYY-MM-DD format. How can you do this with a simple search? You don't know in advance what the exact date will be.