Data engineering and IT

Regular expression

A pattern for matching text, used to find, extract or replace parts of a string.

  • Data engineering and IT

Definition

A pattern for matching text, used to find, extract or replace parts of a string. Often shortened to regex.

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Where it is used

Cleaning postcodes, extracting order numbers and splitting name fields.