A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp), sometimes referred to as rational expression, is a sequence of characters that specifies a match...
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language theory, a regular language (also called a rational language) is a formal language that can be defined by a regular expression, in the strict sense...
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Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) is a library written in C, which implements a regular expression engine, inspired by the capabilities of the...
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Glob (programming) (redirect from Glob expression)
mandate multi-range ([a-c0-3]) support, which derive originally from regular expressions. As reimplementations of Bell Labs' UNIX proliferated, so did reimplementations...
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Grep (redirect from Globally search a regular expression and print)
datasets for lines that match a regular expression. Its name comes from the ed command g/re/p (global regular expression search and print), which has the...
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as a regular expression which does not match as parsing expression: [ab]?[bc][cd] is both a valid regular expression and a valid parsing expression. As...
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the mathematical formalisms called "finite automaton", "regular grammar", or "regular expression", all of which have the same expressive power. Since the...
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This is a comparison of regular expression engines. Formerly called Regex++. One of fuzzy regular expression engines. Included since version 2.13.0. ICU4J...
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0\}} , the paradigmatic non-regular linear language. Regular expression, a compact notation for regular grammars Regular tree grammar, a generalization...
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ReDoS (redirect from Regular expression Denial of Service - ReDoS)
regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) is an algorithmic complexity attack that produces a denial-of-service by providing a regular expression and/or...
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regular expression into an equivalent nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA). This NFA can be used to match strings against the regular expression....
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manager. Path expressions have been extended to support regular expression-like flexibility. XPath is an example of a path expression language. In concurrency...
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by some path satisfying the regular expression; or it can consist of the list of all paths satisfying the regular expression. However, this set of paths...
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something that will return a value Regular expression, a means of matching strings of text in computing Expression marks, in music, notating the musical...
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Kleene algebra (redirect from Regular algebra)
Stephen Cole Kleene) is a semiring that generalizes the theory of regular expressions: it consists of a set supporting union (addition), concatenation...
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theory, the ω-regular languages are a class of ω-languages that generalize the definition of regular languages to infinite words. As regular languages accept...
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Kleene's algorithm (category Regular expressions)
into a regular expression. Together with other conversion algorithms, it establishes the equivalence of several description formats for regular languages...
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used in the implementation of regular expressions: Thompson's construction is an algorithm for compiling a regular expression to an NFA that can efficiently...
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Re2c (section Regular expressions)
JavaScript, OCaml, Python, Rust, V and Zig. It compiles declarative regular expression specifications to deterministic finite automata. Originally written...
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compute the derivative of a generalized regular expression. Even though originally studied for regular expressions, the definition applies to arbitrary formal...
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program, such as a shell interpreter or a regular expression (regex) engine. In POSIX extended regular expressions, there are 14 metacharacters that must...
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ShEx (redirect from Shape expression)
is similar to Turtle and SPARQL while the semantics is inspired by regular expression languages like RelaxNG. PREFIX : <http://example.org/> PREFIX schema:...
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networks, and regular expression hardware acceleration for spam control in the server industry, intended to prevent regular expression denial of service...
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applications of regular expressions, here for pattern matching in the text editor QED. For speed, Thompson implemented regular expression matching by JITing...
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Delimiter (section Regular expression syntax)
escape / in Perl regular expressions, leading to sequences such as "\/\/"); text becomes difficult to parse through regular expression they require a mechanism...
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for the structural complexity of regular expressions and regular languages. The star height of a regular expression equals the maximum nesting depth of...
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syntax. The lexical syntax is usually a regular language, with the grammar rules consisting of regular expressions; they define the set of possible character...
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with any regular expression. The GNFA reads blocks of symbols from the input which constitute a string as defined by the regular expression on the transition...
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precursor of the earliest computer input and output devices. In terms of regular expressions, a basic quoted string literal is given as: "[^"]*" This means that...
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Google Code Search (section Regular expression engine)
custom-built, denial-of-service resistant regular expression engine. In March 2010, the code of RE2, the regular expression engine used in Google Code Search...
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