regex golf

noun

A recreational computer programming competition in which participants attempt to devise the shortest possible regular expression that will match a given set of text strings.

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Meanings

nounregex golf (uncountable)
  1. uncountablecomputingA recreational computer programming competition in which participants attempt to devise the shortest possible regular expression that will match a given set of text strings.
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