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A regular expression, regex  (sometimes called a rational expression) is, in theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. Usually this pattern is then used by string searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression</ref>
A regular expression, regex  (sometimes called a rational expression) is, in theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. Usually this pattern is then used by string searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression</ref>


You [https://www.regular-expressions.info/ should consult this site as a reference as you are learning about regular expressions].


[[File:Regex Cheat Sheet.png|200px]]
== regex cheat sheet ==


[[File:Regex Cheat Sheet.png|600px]]


== References ==
== References ==

Latest revision as of 10:46, 27 April 2022

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A regular expression, regex (sometimes called a rational expression) is, in theoretical computer science and formal language theory, a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. Usually this pattern is then used by string searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings.[2]

You should consult this site as a reference as you are learning about regular expressions.

regex cheat sheet[edit]

Regex Cheat Sheet.png

References[edit]