Regular expressions are a universal tool for matching, validating, and transforming text across programming languages and command-line tools. They can condense complex string operations into compact, ...

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Abstract: Regular expressions can describe specific matching rules, which can be used to determine the string format or extract the string content. Until now, regular expressions have been widely used ...

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