Regular Expressions
What are Regular Expressions?
- Special patterns of characters which enable you to describe a
family of related strings using a shorthand notation
- Used to match and/or modify a pattern within a target string
- Formed by combining a series of characters, strings, and special
meta-characters
- Delimited by the "/ ... /" meta-character pair
- Applied to a target string using the "=~" pattern binding
meta-character
