Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. computing regular expression
Examples
“Besides, one of the most useful features of RegEx Buddy is it's plain English regex tree that makes it easy to understand exactly what a regular expression does - step by step.”
“A regular expression (called regex) is a way for a programmer to instruct how a program should look for a specified pattern in text and then what it should do when each pattern match is found.”
“Regular Expressions, or 'regex' for short, are a very powerful set of text manipulation and pattern matching libraries that have existed on UNIX for decades but which are only now available in FileMaker Pro.”
“If you're familiar with 'regex' or 'grep', then you already know that 360Works Patterns plugin is something you will want to add to your FileMaker toolkit.”
“i dont need any kind of regex search, BUT i would love to be able to specify a set of search terms and shown any file with any of the terms.”
“Idea: implement a Slasher regex against the Tweetstream then track/thank well-formed slashers from @IAmTheSlasher.”
New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher | FactoryCity
“New searches and reports (ad hoc or scheduled) can easily be created, either by inputting regex expressions or copying and modifying an existing object.”
“Individual files within a selected folder can be included or excluded using regex (regular expression) syntax.”
“If you passed in yes to the show_domain parameter, then at the end of title will be found ‘- = = yes’ and the second regex will match and do the substitution with the link.”
“You use the Regex module to modify the title and then at the same time you use another regex rule to * remove* the special tag and the name from the title that was passed in.”
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Babble Tech
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Regular Expressions
Words dealing with the art of regular expressions.
lazy, greedy, grep, algebra, regex, syntax, string, perl, sed, posix, pattern, alternation and 6 more...
Tweets
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moviescribe regexp Jul 10, 2008