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According to Wikipedia, a regular expression (abbreviated regex or regexp) is a sequence of characters that forms a search pattern, mainly for use in pattern matching with strings, or string matching, i.e. "find and replace"-like operations.

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Alternative to using regex in Python

In theory - as mentioned by others - you can substitute Regex with basic string operations or different operations with various libraries. The question remains why you would want to do this as it is w …
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