Regular Expression Pattern
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A regular expression pattern is a pattern matching expression in a regular formal language (that can be accepted by a finite state machine).
- Context:
- It can range from (typically being) a Regular String Expression to being a Regular Graph Expression.
- It can be processed by a Regular Expression Processor.
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- Example(s):
- a String-based Regular Expression Pattern, such as
/a[^b][cd]e/ - a Graph-based Regular Expression Pattern, such as one to describe a graph path or a subgraph.
- a Python Regular Expression Pattern, Perl Regular Expression Pattern, Perl Regular Expression Pattern.
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- a String-based Regular Expression Pattern, such as
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Graph Matching Pattern, Formal Language, Perl Regular Expression.
References
2009
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/regular_expression#Noun
- 1. (computing theory) A concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions.
- 2. (computing more generally) Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression.