I'm trying to understand the following code related to complex regex.
I do not understand how the full_regex line operates? What is the use of the '%s' as well as the other % before the (regex1, regex2...)
Can someone please help with this?
regex1 = '(\d{1,2}[/-]\d{1,2}[/-]\d{2,4})'
regex2 = '((?:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)[\S]*[+\s]\d{1,2}[,]{0,1}[+\s]\d{4})'
regex3 = '(\d{1,2}[+\s](?:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)[\S]*[+\s]\d{4})'
regex4 = '((?:Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)[\S]*[+\s]\d{4})'
regex5 = '(\d{1,2}[/-][1|2]\d{3})'
regex6 = '([1|2]\d{3})'
full_regex = '(%s|%s|%s|%s|%s|%s)' %(regex1, regex2, regex3, regex4, regex5, regex6)
%ss are placeholders for the variables passed after%symbol, this is not a regex, just a format string.