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Regular Expressions medium

Validate Email Regex

Implement a function that validates email addresses using regex with specific rules.

regex email validation
+20 pts 25m
Regular Expressions easy

Validate phone number

Write a function that uses regular expressions to determine if a given string is a valid US phone number.

regex validation phone
+10 pts 15m
Regular Expressions easy

Match IPv4 Address

Write a function that uses a regular expression to check if a string is a valid IPv4 address.

regex validation ipv4
+8 pts 12m
Regular Expressions hard

Match IPv6 Address

Write a function that uses a regex to validate whether a string is a fully expanded IPv6 address.

regex validation ipv6
+25 pts 30m
Regular Expressions medium

Match Credit Card Pattern

Write a function that validates a credit card number string against a set of formatting rules.

regex validation credit-card
+25 pts 25m
Regular Expressions easy

Validate Hex Color Code

Write a function that validates hex color codes using regular expressions.

regex validation strings
+10 pts 10m
Regular Expressions easy

Multiline anchor match

Extract lines beginning with a plain-text prefix from multiline strings using Python's re module.

regex anchors multiline
+10 pts 15m
Regular Expressions easy

Match Balanced Parentheses with Regex

Write a function that uses regular expressions to determine if parentheses are balanced and properly nested.

regex strings validation
+10 pts 15m
Regular Expressions easy

Match scientific notation

Implement a function that checks if a string is in valid scientific notation.

regex validation scientific-notation
+10 pts 15m
Regular Expressions easy

Non-greedy quantifier

Implement a function that uses a non-greedy regex to extract the shortest substring between two delimiters.

regex lazy quantifier string parsing
+8 pts 10m

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Regular Expressions — Python coding challenges

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