regex

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regex (plural regexes)

  1. (computing) Clipping of regular expression.
    • 2017, Moritz Lenz, Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:
      To continue the history course from the previous section, Perl was one of the first general-purpose programming languages to bake regexes into its core functionality.

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