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# [What Is a Regular Expression? The Little Pattern That Finds Any Text](https://itsmeminsithu.hashnode.dev/what-is-a-regular-expression-the-little-pattern-that-finds-any-text?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

It looks like keyboard soup, but it is really just a stencil you hold over a page

2h ago · 7 min read · itsmeminsithu.hashnode.dev  
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