regular expression

noun

Definitions

  1. A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation,…

    A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions.

  2. Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less…

    Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for regular expression. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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