Regular expression is quite underestimated technology in Construction and Engineering world. Mostly cause its looks quite weird, not intuitive, and complicated. But that’s only looks. This article shows how to use it without issues. To do so we limit syntax by few most useful symbols – dot and astricks, and wrap it into brackets. Its easiest way to read, understand and implement for your tasks.
In engineering world searching mostly based on project naming conventions. With regex you can identify that equipment is match with conventions. Check items that do not match with it at all. Setup income data check. Implement rapid fixes.
Regex – its a kind of pattern language. You define pattern value, and engine use it to find anything that much with it. What make it powerful – is Tokens. Your search patten can contains more than one item to search simultaniously, and as soon as it has been found – you can play with that.