Jobs might not require coding literacy, but knowing how to write rudimentary code (in a scripting language like Python) makes a computer another tool at your disposal (a very very powerful one!). e.g.
(Also, being able to clarify ones thoughts enough to convey them unambiguously to a computer is possibly a useful skill in itself.)
one can use a regular expression to find all the telephone numbers in a text document
Recognizing phone numbers is actually a non-trivial problem, because people write them in so many crazy ways. It's easier if you have a list of phone numbers all formatted in roughly the same way, but that's not always the case.
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