Have you ever needed to find an IP address in a body of text, within code, in an API or Database? Probably not, but after going through this tutorial you will know how to just using regex. After this tutorial you will also be able to utilize regular expressions to find and search anything, by creating your own patterns.
For the record I did not come up with this regex pattern myself. I will be using this regex pattern as a teaching example. By breakdown this regex down character for character I will be able to show you the different parts and pieces of a regex.
Now lets get into it, here is the pattern we will be deconstructing:
