Web Scraping Dictionary
Learn about Web Scraping terms and what they mean.
Definition updated on July 2023
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Regular Expression (Regex)
What is a regular expression (Regex)?
Regex, also known as a structural regular expression, is one of the most potent, adaptable, and effective text processing techniques. Regex is a kind of miniature programming language with its own terminologies, conditions, and syntax. Any type of text or data can be added to, removed from, isolated from, and otherwise altered with regex.
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