Importance of RegEx?

JavaScript
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I’ve been struggling a lot in understanding the RegEx part of the JS curriculum. I was wondering about why it is important to learn and is it even worth learning? To be more specific, I’ve been with the last ~12ish exercises.

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it’s pretty useful for pattern recognition in strings… if it would be useful to you in particolar, depends really on what projects you will work on

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I appreciate the answer! How useful would it be if I plan to use javascript in website development?

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A good example in web dev would be if a user had to enter in their email address. You could validate that email using a regex that matches that structure of an email.

Here is a helpful article on real world examples.
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/extremely-useful-regular-expression-examples-for-real-world-applications-567e844a0822

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