How to Use Regex Patterns in Pandas to Work With Complex Strings

Regex simplifies pattern-matching tasks on large amounts of text — Pandas makes it elegant

Thuwarakesh Murallie
Towards Data Science
7 min readFeb 27, 2023

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Regex is the most potent technique to clean and extract data. If you’ve ever worked with a large text dataset, you’d know how time-consuming and energy-draining it would be.

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