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regular expressions

regular expressions is the plural of regular expression.

Meaning of regular expression

Noun

regular expression (plural regular expressions)

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

Questions about regular expressions

What is regular expressions the plural of?
Regular expressions is the plural of regular expression.

Words near regular expressions in the dictionary

  1. regular dividend
  2. regular dividends
  3. regular element
  4. regular elements
  5. regular expression
  6. regular expressions
  7. regular folk
  8. regular folks
  9. regular function
  10. regular functions
  11. regular graph

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