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Word: regular expression (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • _|more generally Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.
  • _|theory A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions.

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