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Regular Expressions Without the Fear
Community description: I avoided regex for years. I would copy a pattern from Stack Overflow, paste it, and hope. Then one...
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | Binary Journal
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Open a scratch pad, type a string, type a regex, see what matches. Without anchors, \d{4} matches the first four digits anywhere in the string. Named groups make the regex self-documenting.
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