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regex

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Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛɡˌɛks/ / /ˈɹɛd͡ʒˌɛks/

noun

  1. 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.