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regex en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /ˈɹɛɡˌɛks/
  • /ˈɹɛd͡ʒˌɛks/
  • (UK) audio

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping) Clipping of regular expression.
    • 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. 2017, Moritz Lenz, Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
regexes Number=Plur lexicographic
regexp alternative lexicographic
RegEx alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

regex golf · regexer