A full-blown programming language like Java or Python can do many things, but regex does one thing only: match text against patterns. An individual regular expression is expressed as a string of ...

The creators of the Python language are mulling a new proposal, PEP 622, that would finally bring a pattern matching statement syntax to Python. The new pattern matching statements would give ...

When the regular expression that you use to match the section to delete does not change ... output = matcherStartMiddle.replaceFirst(""); In Python it takes us four lines: PATTERN_END = ...