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  2. Regular expression - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression

    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. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Regular expression - Wikipedia

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    Greed, in regular expression context, describes the number of characters which will be matched (often also stated as "consumed") by a variable length portion of a regular expression – a token or group followed by a quantifier, which specifies a number (or range of numbers) of tokens. If the portion of the regular expression is "greedy", it ...

  4. Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/Find and replace - Wikipedia

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    Regex – If checked indicates that the find and replace expression is a regular expression. Multiline – If checked, this indicates to AWB that the regex characters "^" and "$" ought to match at the beginning and the end of lines respectively, not just the beginning and end of the entire page.

  5. Help:Searching/Regex - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching/Regex

    A regex search scans the text of each page on Wikipedia in real time, character by character, to find pages that match a specific sequence or pattern of characters. Unlike keyword searching, regex searching is by default case-sensitive, does not ignore punctuation, and operates directly on the page source (MediaWiki markup) rather than on the ...

  6. Comparison of regular expression engines - Wikipedia

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    Regular Expression Flavor Comparison – Detailed comparison of the most popular regular expression flavors; Regexp Syntax Summary; Online Regular Expression Testing – with support for Java, JavaScript, .Net, PHP, Python and Ruby; Implementing Regular Expressions – series of articles by Russ Cox, author of RE2; Regular Expression Engines

  7. Find and replace - Wikipedia

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    Find and replace may refer to: a feature of text processing as found: ... Regular expressions; String searching algorithms ; replace (command), an MS DOS command

  8. Help:Manipulating strings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Manipulating_strings

    Regular expressions (or regex) are a common and very versatile programming technique for manipulating strings. On Wikipedia you can use a limited version of regex called a Lua pattern to select and modify bits of text from a string. The pattern is a piece of code describing what you are looking for in the string.

  9. Template:Regex - Wikipedia

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    As an ad hoc sandbox, you can show the wikitext of a section like this, (already saved in the database), modify some of the patterns in the regex-search-link template calls on this page, do a Show Preview, and see what matches when you click on the newly formed regex search-link, all quite safely, and without changing a thing in the database.