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regular expression:

regular expression [the ~] noun

  1. the regular expression (regex)
    – A concise and flexible notation for finding and replacing patterns of text. The notation comprises two basic character types: literal (normal) text characters, which indicate text that must exist in the target string, and metacharacters, which indicate the text that can vary in the target string. You can use regular expressions to quickly parse large amounts of text to find specific character patterns; extract, edit, replace, or delete text substrings; or to add the extracted strings to a collection in order to generate a report. 1

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expression régulière regex; regular expression
regex regex; regular expression

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  1. A concise and flexible notation for finding and replacing patterns of text. The notation comprises two basic character types: literal (normal) text characters, which indicate text that must exist in the target string, and metacharacters, which indicate the text that can vary in the target string. You can use regular expressions to quickly parse large amounts of text to find specific character patterns; extract, edit, replace, or delete text substrings; or to add the extracted strings to a collection in order to generate a report.1

Wiktionary Translations for regular expression:

regular expression
noun
  1. computing: a concise description of a pattern to be matched
regular expression
noun
  1. programmation|fr chaîne de caractères ou motif, décrivant un ensemble d’autres chaînes selon une syntaxe précise.
  2. anglicisme|fr programmation|fr expression rationnelle.

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