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Overview

Regex is shorthand for "Regular Expressions", a syntax used in string matching and replacement. It is especially heavily used in Perl, and the Linux utility grep is basically a front end for regex geared towards file-searching.

Articles

• Perl regex
• regex manpage

Examples

• \[http://[a-z|.|\-]+\.[a-z|.|\-]+[a-z|.|\-/]* [a-z|A-Z| ]+\]
  • matches a link in MediaWiki markup (it could probably be more precise, but catches most of them)