Regex is Magic
The import statement in python is one of earliest thing that people learn how to do. But what when the import statement can not import the file that we want? In this talk we will go through the basic of importing, the relative imports, and using the sys library to expand the places it is searching.
- Timeslot: Sunday, 6th April 2025, 15:00-16:00, Room B
- Tags: data
Elevator Pitch:
Regex is one of the more flexible and simple ways of
making the text in the structural data. I will give an overview and some
examples in how it is used.
Description:
I have seen companies sell regex as AI.
Regex is an old magical tool that can turn any kind of unstructured text
file into something that can be used for further processing. As one of
the more popular technical tools. And yet it can frustrate people which
claim that regex is unreadable. It is quite a versatile one, as there
are cases this is sold as the AI. And it is also quite old, standing the
decades of passing time.
In this talk, I will talk about what regex is and how it can be used.
Then I am going to show some of the ways regex can be used.
After the economics and cognitive science study, I ended up as the backend developer tasked with maintaining over 100 integrations. These days I work as a frontend developer at work and volunteer as a data analyst at the Ace Community Survey. Otherwise you can find me writing fanfiction (and wrangling tags), dancing, and playing go.
