noun🔗ShareA concise description of a regular formal language with notations for concatenation, alternation, and iteration (repetition) of subexpressions."The teacher used a regex to quickly find all the student names in the class list that started with the letter "J". "technologycomputinglanguagemathlogicChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(more generally) Any pattern for text matching or searching, frequently offering more or less functionality than a theoretical regular expression."To find all phone numbers in the customer list, the programmer used a simple regex that looked for ten digits in a row. "computingtechnicalinternetlanguageChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading