Category Archives: Regular Expressions

Extracting Tables That Aren’t Tables: A Smarter Approach

If you’ve been following my previous posts, you would have realized that although the process delivers results, it delivers them after a considerable amount of time. Not only is the execution time lengthy, there is a level of complexity which is unavoidable, since we have to study the HTML structure first, then test out various…

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Browser Migration Using Regex. Yes, You Read That Correctly(Part-I)

Regular Expressions are a life saver, especially when dealing with complex pattern recognition. Once you become proficient at crafting regex patterns (or proficient enough to google the right patterns), you can slowly become creative with it. It happens naturally, as you start looking for patterns outside of regex – areas where you may apply regex…

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