by Vincent Ging Ho Yim | Mar 26, 2023 | Vincent Yim
As a data analyst, you often have to turn input data into a consistent format in order to perform further analysis. Regular expression, or regex for short, is a commonly used tool for parsing text input. Learning regex may seem daunting at first because of its syntax....
by The Data School | Feb 24, 2022 | The Data School
Seriously, Regular Expression (Regex) almost made me want to quit Alteryx. Imagine you are in a huge library and looking for a book, the first person you might think of is the librarian. To data analysts, regex is the librarian, and data is the book they are looking...
by Grace Murphy | May 5, 2019 | Grace Murphy
If you suddenly need RegEx to solve a problem, it can be tempting to google a syntax list and start awkwardly crafting the pattern that will (hopefully) match whatever string you need. This can be time consuming, however, and it’s likely that your solution is not the...
