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Regex

/ˈɹɛˌdʒɛks/

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

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📖 Definitions of "Regex"

noun

1
A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions.
2
(more generally) Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Regex"

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Word	Definition
regexpnoun	(computing) Alternative form of regex.
grepnoun	A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.
subexpressionnoun	(mathematics, programming) An expression that is a part of a larger expression.
syntaxnoun	A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
subexpressionsnoun	—
substringnoun	(computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
perlnoun	(computer languages) A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.
postfixnoun	(chiefly computing) A suffix.
whitespacenoun	(often attributive) Alternative form of white space. [White area between written characters and graphic regions on a produced page or computer display; blanks and the vertical blank lines in between paragraphs, or other organized rows of text lines (poetry).]
substringsnoun	(computing) A (possibly zero-length) string of characters that is contained in another string.
backreferencesnoun	—
exprnoun	expr is a command line utility on Unix and Unix-like operating systems which evaluates an expression and outputs the corresponding value.
multibyte	(computing) Contained in more than one byte.
subpatternnoun	A pattern that is contained in another, larger pattern.
textfilenoun	Alternative form of text file. [(computing) A datafile containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting.]
pcrenoun	(regular expressions) Initialism of Perl-compatible regular expressions.
datatypenoun	Alternative spelling of data type. [(programming) A classification or category of various types of data, that states the possible values that can be taken, how they are stored, and what range of operations are allowed on them.]
parsernoun	(computing) A computer program that parses.
xpathnoun	(computing) Abbreviation of XML Path Language. [(computing) A query language for selecting nodes from an XML document, developed by the W3C.]
subpatternsnoun	—