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Rather than use the search box, where entering an equals sign and a pipe character, and "quotes around phrases" is a straightforward matter, it is still easiest to use a regex-based search-link template — {} or {} — on the page with sample data, because then you can focus on the target data there and on writing the regexp pattern. It is ...
This template instills some regexp-search best practices: Always filter a regexp search. Never run a bare regexp search. This template creates a search link, but unlike {{search link}}, this template pre-builds filters and the more arcane elements of the regexp necessary to target a pattern inside a template wikitext. Here you need only enter ...
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 ...
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 .
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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.