Step 3
Filtering Out the Noise with Regex
Cleaning our data
(^[,:\s]*|[,:\s]*$)
- match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 1
- match either the regular expression below (attempting the next alternative only if this one fails)
- assert position at the beginning of the string
- match a single character present in the list below
- between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
- one of the characters ",:"
- a whitespace character (spaces, tabs, line breaks, etc.)
- or match regular expression number 2 below (the entire group fails if this one fails to match)
- match a single character present in the list below
- between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
- one of the characters ",:"
- a whitespace character (spaces, tabs, line breaks, etc.)
- assert position at the end of the string (or before the line break at the end of the string, if any)
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