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  2. Regular expression - Wikipedia

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    Different syntaxes for writing regular expressions have existed since the 1980s, one being the POSIX standard and another, widely used, being the Perl syntax. Regular expressions are used in search engines, in search and replace dialogs of word processors and text editors, in text processing utilities such as sed and AWK, and in lexical ...

  3. Help:Searching/Regex - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Pattern matching - Wikipedia

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    Thus, to match "any amount of trailing characters", a new wildcard ___ is needed in contrast to _ that would match only a single character. In Haskell and functional programming languages in general, strings are represented as functional lists of characters. A functional list is defined as an empty list, or an element constructed on an existing ...

  5. Help:Searching/Features - Wikipedia

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    Greyspace characters and whitespace characters are all folded together as one, just as special characters like æ (ae) or á (a) are folded into the standard keyboard characters. A phrase expresses an ordering of words, [ 4 ] and there are three ways to make one, depending on how aggressively you want the phrase to match.

  6. Comparison of regular expression engines - Wikipedia

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    Fuzzy Regular Expressions for Java: Java: LGPL GLib/GRegex [Note 3] GLib reference manual: C: LGPL GNU regex Gnulib reference manual: C LGPL GNU libc, GNU programs GRETA Microsoft Research: C++ Proprietary Gregex: Grovf Inc. RTL, HLS Proprietary: FPGA accelerated >100 Gbit/s regex engine for cybersecurity, financial, e-commerce industries ...

  7. Template:Regex - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Kleene star - Wikipedia

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    In mathematical logic and computer science, the Kleene star (or Kleene operator or Kleene closure) is a unary operation, either on sets of strings or on sets of symbols or characters. In mathematics, it is more commonly known as the free monoid construction.

  9. 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 ...