regular expression
English
Noun
regular expression (plural regular expressions)
- (computing theory) 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.
Translations
computing: a concise description of a pattern to be matched
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