English Explanatory Dictionary

regular expression

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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 functionality than a theoretical regular expression.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-regular expression.wav

Word forms

regular expression regular expressions

Synonyms

regex regexp

Derived words

grep PCRE re regex regexp
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