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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]. | |||
== regex cheat sheet == | == regex cheat sheet == | ||
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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.
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