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>Also, strictly speaking, it's not a "regular expression" but a "regex" And regex is short for regular expression, so you've essentially said nothing.
by Suppafly 2y ago
>Also, strictly speaking, it's not a "regular expression" but a "regex"
And regex is short for regular expression, so you've essentially said nothing.
- shagie 2y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20100112232513/http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A05.html https://web.archive.org/web/20100112232513/http://dev.perl.o... AUTHOR Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> Maintainer: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> Date: 4 Jun 2002 Last Modified: 18 May 2006 Number: 5 Version: 7 This is the Apocalypse on Pattern Matching, generally having to do with what we call "regular expressions", which are only marginally related to real regular expressions. Nevertheless, the term has grown with the capabilities of our pattern matching engines, so I'm not going to try to fight linguistic necessity here. I will, however, generally call them "regexes" (or "regexen", when I'm in an Anglo-Saxon mood).