Regexes is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Regexes in a sentence
Regexes meaning
plural of regex
Using Regexes
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of regex
- In the example corpus, regexes often appears in combinations such as: regexes are, regexes by, regexes have.
Context around Regexes
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Regexes
- In this selection, "regexes" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, testing, learning, specify, heavily and via stand out and add context to how "regexes" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 5 x regexes but also and and consequently regexes is often. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "regexes" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with regexes
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Most other languages offer regexes via a library. (8 words)
The kernel of the structure specification language standards consists of regexes. (11 words)
I will, however, generally call them "regexes" (or "regexen", when I'm in an Anglo-Saxon mood). (17 words)
Patterns The phrase regular expressions (and consequently, regexes) is often used to mean the specific, standard textual syntax (distinct from the mathematical notation described below) for representing patterns that matching text need to conform to. (35 words)
Regexes are so useful in computing that the various systems to specify regexes have evolved to provide both a basic and extended standard for the grammar and syntax; modern regexes heavily augment the standard. (34 words)
The usual context of wildcard characters is in globbing similar names in a list of files, whereas regexes are usually employed in applications that pattern-match text strings in general. (30 words)
Example sentences (12)
Because regexes can be difficult to both explain and understand without examples, interactive web sites for testing regexes are a useful resource for learning regexes by experimentation.
Regexes are so useful in computing that the various systems to specify regexes have evolved to provide both a basic and extended standard for the grammar and syntax; modern regexes heavily augment the standard.
In most respects it makes no difference what the character set is, but some issues do arise when extending regexes to support Unicode.
I will, however, generally call them "regexes" (or "regexen", when I'm in an Anglo-Saxon mood).
Most other languages offer regexes via a library.
Patterns The phrase regular expressions (and consequently, regexes) is often used to mean the specific, standard textual syntax (distinct from the mathematical notation described below) for representing patterns that matching text need to conform to.
Perl regexes have become a de facto standard, having a rich and powerful set of atomic expressions.
The kernel of the structure specification language standards consists of regexes.
These rules maintain existing features of Perl 5.x regexes, but also allow BNF -style definition of a recursive descent parser via sub-rules.
The usual context of wildcard characters is in globbing similar names in a list of files, whereas regexes are usually employed in applications that pattern-match text strings in general.
This section provides a basic description of some of the properties of regexes by way of illustration.
Today regexes are widely supported in programming languages, text processing programs (particular lexers), advanced text editors, and some other programs.
Common combinations with regexes
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- regexes are 4×
- regexes by 2×
- regexes have 2×
- perl regexes 2×
- of regexes 2×