A.5 Regular Expressions

Regular expressions are among the most powerful pattern matching mechanism, used extensively in text processing (often by Perl and AWK scripts).

Regular expression operations are relatively expensive compared to standard string comparisons. Use them only if required.

Regular expressions are supported in expressions for matching a string value against a pattern. The pattern matching can be done on one string value or on a list of values.

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