regex

English

Alternative forms

• regexp, RegEx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛɡˌɛks/, /ˈɹɛd͡ʒˌɛks/

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Noun

regex (plural regexes)

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

     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.

Derived terms

• regex golf