Real world examples of regex

#1

Dear All,

Today I’ve completed regular expression section but still need to do loads of practice to gain confidence.

Can you please share any website which shares real world regex ? I did google but didn’t find any comprehensive list from real world projects.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Hey @vikramvi,

I don’t really know any sites that gives regex challenges (well, because people really hate regex for it’s syntax) anyways, if you want to study more about regex, there are a lot of sites where you can try regex out yourself with your own testcases, here are some:

https://regexr.com

#3

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2014/02/24/coder-on-the-verge-of-extinction/?setLocale=1

#4

If by real world you mean a regex tester I always use https://regex101.com/ If by real world you mean an example of use I can give you one from my world:
I have a Powershell script that gets a list of servers from Microsoft AD with Get-ADComputer, sorts them with a regex by name and restarts 3 services on some of them
/Jakob

#5

Oh, and there’s always an xkcd :slight_smile:

#6

Real-world usage is exactly the same as the usage in the examples/challenges on FCC, there isn’t really a distinction: it’s just a way to match some pattern in a string, it’s not as if you use it any differently IRL

#7