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What are Regexes and Grammars?

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We come into contact with all sorts of structured data: telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, postal addresses, credit card numbers, and so on.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language

  2. 2.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene_star

  3. 3.

    Other programming languages use the word “Traits” for the concept behind Perl 6 roles.

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Lenz, M. (2017). What are Regexes and Grammars?. In: Parsing with Perl 6 Regexes and Grammars. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3228-6_1

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