How does regex substitution work?

Substitutions are language elements that are recognized only within replacement patterns. They use a regular expression pattern to define all or part of the text that is to replace matched text in the input string . The replacement pattern can consist of one or more substitutions along with literal characters.

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What is regex used for?

A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp; also referred to as rational expression) is a sequence of characters that specifies a search pattern in text . Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for “find” or “find and replace” operations on strings, or for input validation.

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