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  2. Help:Searching/Regex - Wikipedia

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    A regex search scans the text of each page on Wikipedia in real time, character by character, to find pages that match a specific sequence or pattern of characters. Unlike keyword searching, regex searching is by default case-sensitive, does not ignore punctuation, and operates directly on the page source (MediaWiki markup) rather than on the ...

  3. Regular expression - Wikipedia

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    A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp), [1] sometimes referred to as rational expression, [2] [3] is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text. Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings , or for input validation .

  4. Matching wildcards - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, an algorithm for matching wildcards (also known as globbing) is useful in comparing text strings that may contain wildcard syntax. [1] Common uses of these algorithms include command-line interfaces, e.g. the Bourne shell [2] or Microsoft Windows command-line [3] or text editor or file manager, as well as the interfaces for some search engines [4] and databases. [5]

  5. Pattern matching - Wikipedia

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    Here, 0 is a single value pattern. Now, whenever f is given 0 as argument the pattern matches and the function returns 1. With any other argument, the matching and thus the function fail.

  6. Approximate string matching - Wikipedia

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    In the array containing the E(x, y) values, we then choose the minimal value in the last row, let it be E(x 2, y 2), and follow the path of computation backwards, back to the row number 0. If the field we arrived at was E(0, y 1), then T[y 1 + 1] ... T[y 2] is a substring of T with the minimal edit distance to the pattern P.

  7. Perl Compatible Regular Expressions - Wikipedia

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    If the newline option alternative in effect includes CRLF as one of the valid linebreaks, it does not skip the \n in a CRLF if the pattern contains specific \r or \n references (since version 7.3). Since version 8.10, the metacharacter \N always matches any character other than linebreak

  8. Delimiter - Wikipedia

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    A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text, mathematical expressions or other data streams. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] An example of a delimiter is the comma character, which acts as a field delimiter in a sequence of comma-separated values .

  9. Jaro–Winkler distance - Wikipedia

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    If no matching characters are found then the strings are not similar and the algorithm terminates by returning Jaro similarity score 0. If non-zero matching characters are found, the next step is to find the number of transpositions. Transposition is the number of matching characters that are not in the right order divided by two.