Regular Expressions (Regex) are powerful sequences of characters that form a search pattern. Regex allows users to define a set of rules to find, match, or manipulate strings, making it invaluable for tasks such as data validation, text extraction, and search operations. ChatGPT’s ability to understand context and infer patterns from examples allows it to generate regex patterns that accurately capture the desired text patterns, ensuring efficient and effective text processing workflows.
Here are prompts for references (Regex Strategy with ChatGPT);
- Develop a Regex pattern to match HTML tags. Apply it to ‘<p>This is a <strong>sample</strong> paragraph</p>’.
- Create a Regex pattern to match and replace phone numbers. For instance, replace ‘555-123-4567’ with ‘[Phone Number]’.
- Develop a Regex pattern to replace consecutive whitespaces with a single space. Test it on ‘This is an example.’
Click here to see the result generated by ChatGPT;