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icon: package
label: re
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### `re.match(pattern, string)`

Return a match object if the string matches the pattern, and `None` otherwise. (force match at the beginning of the string)

### `re.search(pattern, string)`

Return a match object if the string matches the pattern, and `None` otherwise.

### `re.split(pattern, string)`

Split the string by the occurrences of the pattern.

### `re.sub(pattern, repl, string)`

Return a copy of the string with all occurrences of the pattern replaced by the replacement string.