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Introduction to Data Validation with Regular Expressions


Regular expressions enable you to find and extract more complicated pieces of information in your strings and do this in a multiple-byte character set environment.

The tutorial covers the following:

  • The definition of regular expressions and the basics of their use
  • Potential problems that might arise while using regular expressions
  • Use of regular expressions to perform data validation in a web applications
  • Functions that use regular expressions to perform more interesting and advanced tasks

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