regular expression
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Meaning
- noun A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions.
- noun Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.
Similar words
regular language regex formation rule formal grammar kleene's theorem recurrence relation superexpression recursive definition recursive descent redex
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