regular expression
Noun
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Noun
regular expression (plural regular expressions)
- (comptheory) A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions.
- (computing, more generally) Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.
- regex
- regexp
- French: expression rationnelle, expression régulière
- German: regulärer Ausdruck, RegExp, Regex
- Italian: espressione regolare
- Portuguese: expressão regular
- Russian: регуля́рное выраже́ние
- Spanish: expresión regular
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