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		peterashford on Feb 19, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: RE2/J: Linear time regular expression matching in ... So Perl and Python don't have regex then?

sanxiyn on Feb 19, 2015 [–]

No, they are not regular.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language for more.

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