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What is the most definite purpose of regular expression
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Regex has a wide range of uses but I think the must prominent one will be search
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Its purpose is to match characters and find patterns, it looks intimidating at first but somthing you could get used to in time.
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It's a very powerful tool for searching and replacing across some value, db queries, a single file or many files, etc.