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Module #02 RegExpression Using Python

This document provides an overview of Regular Expressions (RegEx) and their significance in text processing, particularly in Python. It includes theoretical explanations of RegEx components and practical tasks for extracting emails, validating phone numbers, and manipulating date formats. The document also outlines key functions in Python's re module for working with RegEx patterns.

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Module #02 RegExpression Using Python

This document provides an overview of Regular Expressions (RegEx) and their significance in text processing, particularly in Python. It includes theoretical explanations of RegEx components and practical tasks for extracting emails, validating phone numbers, and manipulating date formats. The document also outlines key functions in Python's re module for working with RegEx patterns.

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Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Instructor: Waqas Ahmed (Khilji Khan)


PhD (Scholar)…

[Link]
Module 2: RegExpression Using Python
• Basics of RegExpression

A1. Basics of Regular Expressions (Theory)

Answer the following questions briefly: 1. What is a Regular Expression (Regex)? Why is it
important in text processing? 2. Explain the following Regex components with examples: -
Literals - Metacharacters (. ^ $ * + ? { } [ ] | ( )) - Character classes - Quantifiers -
Anchors - Groups and capturing 3. Difference between [Link](), [Link](), [Link](), and [Link]().

A2. Practical Tasks (Python)

Write Python programs using the re module to: 1. Extract all email addresses from a given
text file. 2. Validate a Pakistani mobile number format. 3. Find and replace all dates in the
format DD/MM/YYYY with YYYY-MM-DD. 4. Tokenize a paragraph into words using Regex
(without NLTK).

1. Introduction
A Regular Expression (RegEx) is a special string pattern used to search, match, extract, or replace text.
Think of it as a pattern-matching language: you tell Python what the text should “look like,” and it finds all strings
that match that pattern.
Why RegEx is important
• Validate user inputs (emails, phone numbers, passwords)
• Extract useful information from text (dates, names, prices)
• Clean and preprocess text for NLP or data analysis
• Search and replace in large text files automatically

2. Python re Module
Python provides the re module to work with RegEx.
import re

Key Functions
Function Purpose Example

[Link]() Matches pattern only at the start of a string [Link](r'Hello', 'Hello world') → match

Searches for first occurrence anywhere in


[Link]() [Link](r'world', 'Hello world') → match
string

[Link](r'\d+', 'I have 2 apples and 10 oranges') →


[Link]() Returns all matches as a list
['2','10']
Function Purpose Example

Returns an iterator of match objects for all


[Link]() Useful for positions
matches

[Link]() Splits string using pattern as separator [Link](r'\s+', 'Hello world') → ['Hello','world']

[Link](r'apples','mangoes','I have apples') → 'I have


[Link]() Replaces pattern with a string
mangoes'

3. RegEx Syntax & Symbols


a) Character Types

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