Regular Expressions.pptVIP

Prof. Andrzej (AJ) Bieszczad Email: andrzej@csun.edu Phone: 818-677-4954 Regular Expressions Lecturer: Prof. Andrzej (AJ) Bieszczad Email: andrzej@csun.edu Phone: 818-677-4954 What is a Regular Expression? A regular expression (regex) describes a pattern to match multiple input strings. Regular expressions descend from a fundamental concept in Computer Science called finite automata theory Regular expressions are endemic to Unix Some utilities/programs that use them: vi, ed, sed, and emacs awk, tcl, perl and Python grep, egrep, fgrep compilers The simplest regular expression is a string of