April 2006
lf53, UNIXBasics: Regular Expressions
by ruadriftRegular expressions can be found in many advanced editors like vi and emacs, in the programs grep/egrep and languages like awk, perl and sed.
Regular Expressions are used for advanced context sensitive searches and text modifications. A Regular Expression is a formal description of a template to be matched against a text string.
January 2006
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