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Regex Mastery

Regular expressions are a compact language for describing text patterns, built into virtually every programming language and text processing tool. They power input validation, log parsing, data extraction, search-and-replace, and tokenization. Used well, a single regex can replace dozens of lines of string manipulation code. Used poorly, they become unreadable traps and can grind a server to a halt via catastrophic backtracking.

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