regex

programming

Stands for: regular expression

A compact pattern language for matching and extracting text.

A regular expression describes a set of strings, used to validate, search, or split text. It is powerful and terse to the point of being famously write-only; poorly written patterns can also be slow enough to be a denial-of-service risk (see ReDoS).

Also known as: regexp, regular expression, regexes

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