Regular Expressions – (Regex) – Regular Expression Automata Theory by ComputeNow - September 2, 2018September 2, 20180 Regular Expressions was initially a term borrowed from automata theory in theoretical computer science. Broadly, it refers to patterns to which a sub-string needs to be matched. The comic should have already given you an idea of what regular expressions could be useful for. It should not be surprising that many programming languages, text processing