A proposal under consideration by Python’s development team would finally bring pattern matching statements to the language.

The pattern-matching syntax introduced in Python 3.10 allows for powerful new programming techniques for decision-making in apps.

With structural pattern matching developers can match variables against one of a set of possible values, without relying on if/else/elif blocks for handling expression values anymore.

A long time ago, I wrote a utility for an employer that allowed testers to perform verification on data coming out of a hardware box using a regular expression language. It allowed users to ...

Pattern Matching Using Regular Expression (RX) Functions and CALL Routines You can use a special group of functions and CALL routines to match or change data according to a specific pattern that you ...

This group consists of CALL RXCHANGE, CALL RXFREE, CALL RXSUBSTR, RXMATCH, and RXPARSE, and comprises the character string matching category for functions and CALL routines. For a description, see ...