Regular Expression

Regular Expression definition - hacker
A programmer’s “Swiss Army knife” for everything related to pattern matching. With a regular expression, a programmer can search for basically any type of pattern in textual data.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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