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  2. Regular expression - Wikipedia

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    A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp), [1] sometimes referred to as rational expression, [2] [3] is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text. Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings , or for input validation .

  3. Backslash - Wikipedia

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    An actual backslash is produced by a double backslash \\. Regular expression languages used it the same way, changing subsequent literal characters into metacharacters and vice versa. For instance \||b searches for either '|' or 'b', the first bar is escaped and searched for, the second is not escaped and acts as an "or".

  4. Leaning toothpick syndrome - Wikipedia

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    The slash is also used as the default regular expression delimiter, so to be used literally in the expression, it must be escaped with a backslash \, leading to frequent escaped slashes represented as \/. If doubled, as in URLs, this yields \/\/ for an escaped //.

  5. Metacharacter - Wikipedia

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    A metacharacter is a character that has a special meaning to a computer program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine.. In POSIX extended regular expressions, there are 14 metacharacters that must be escaped — preceded by a backslash (\) — in order to drop their special meaning and be treated literally inside an expression: opening and closing square brackets ...

  6. String literal - Wikipedia

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    Most commonly this is backslash; in addition to other characters, a key point is that backslash itself can be encoded as a double backslash \\ and for delimited strings the delimiter itself can be encoded by escaping, say by \" for ". A regular expression for such escaped strings can be given as follows, as found in the ANSI C specification: [1 ...

  7. Help:Searching/Regex - Wikipedia

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    / is special because it indicates the end of the regex. For example, insource:/yes/no/ is treated the same as insource:/yes/ no (because the keyword search for no/ ignores punctuation). The / character must be backslash-escaped everywhere it appears inside a regex – even inside square brackets or quotation marks.. matches any single character.

  8. Perl Compatible Regular Expressions - Wikipedia

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    Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) is a library written in C, which implements a regular expression engine, inspired by the capabilities of the Perl programming language. Philip Hazel started writing PCRE in summer 1997. [ 3 ]

  9. Path (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Since UNCs start with two backslashes, and the backslash is also used for string escaping and in regular expressions, this can result in extreme cases of leaning toothpick syndrome: an escaped string for a regular expression matching a UNC begins with 8 backslashes – \\\\\ – because the string and regular expression both require escaping.