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Regular expressions are powerful pattern-matching phrases that can be used to search and/or retrieve information from texts. I use regular expressions to process web access logs.
  
 
==Tools==
 
==Tools==
 
[http://txt2regex.sourceforge.net/ txt2regex] is an excellent tool that asks you a series of questions to build any regular expression, showing how it might differ in different programs like perl, php, python, etc.
 
[http://txt2regex.sourceforge.net/ txt2regex] is an excellent tool that asks you a series of questions to build any regular expression, showing how it might differ in different programs like perl, php, python, etc.

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Regular expressions are powerful pattern-matching phrases that can be used to search and/or retrieve information from texts. I use regular expressions to process web access logs.

Tools

txt2regex is an excellent tool that asks you a series of questions to build any regular expression, showing how it might differ in different programs like perl, php, python, etc.