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Regex

/ˈɹɛɡˌɛks/ · noun

Meaning

(computing) Clipping of regular expression..

Example Sentences

To continue the history course from the previous section, Perl was one of the first general-purpose programming languages to bake regexes into its core functionality.

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Antonyms for regex

Related Words

regexpgrepsubexpressionsyntaxsubexpressionssubstringperlpostfixwhitespacesubstringsbackreferencesexprmultibytesubpatterntextfilepcredatatypeparserxpathsubpatterns

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does regex mean?

Regex means (computing) Clipping of regular expression..

What is a synonym for regex?

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What is the opposite of regex?

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How do you use regex in a sentence?

To continue the history course from the previous section, Perl was one of the first general-purpose programming languages to bake regexes into its core functionality.

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