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Thisarticleorsectionisastub.Itdoesnotyetcontainenoughinformationtobeconsideredarealarticle.Inotherwords,itisashortorinsufficientpieceofinformationandrequiresadditions.1DefinitionRegularexpressions(regexps)provideaformalismtoidentifypatternsinsometextandanysortofothercode.E.g.programmerswhencreatingcomputercodeusetofind/replacetextinsomecode,computerprogramscriptscanuseregexpstotranslatecodefromoneformintoanother(e.g.HTMLtoWiki),JavaScriptprogramsmayuseregexpstocheckifuserdataenteredinHTMLfor...
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1 DefinitionRegular expressions (regexps) provide a formalism to identify patterns in some text and any sort of other code. E.g. programmers when creating computer code use to find/replace text in some code, computer program scripts can use regexps to translate code from one form into another (e.g. HTML to Wiki), JavaScript programs may use regexps to check if user data entered in HTML form is correct, etc.
In computing, regular expressions provide a concise and flexible means for identifying strings of text of interest, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Regular expressions (abbreviated as regex or regexp, with plural forms regexes, regexps, or regexen) are written in a formal language that can be interpreted by a regular expression...