Given their complexity, this article offers streamlined summaries and examples of their use in Excel. The REGEX functions are available for people using Excel for Microsoft 365 on Windows or Mac ...

Regex patterns help search text strings efficiently (e.g., emails, digits, specific sequences) using symbols. Excel provides predefined regex functions (REGEXTEST, REGEXEXTRACT, REGEXREPLACE ...

The problem was the developer wasn’t clear on the difference between a regular expression and a glob. Tools like grep use regular expressions to create search patterns. I might write [Hh]ack ...