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regular expression

A pattern of literal and special characters that describes a set of character strings. The use of regular expressions in text searches locates one or more occurrences of the character strings represented by the expression. A search using a regular expression is more powerful than a search for a simple character string, since the regular expression represents a greater (potentially infinite) number of character strings and searches for them in parallel. In ABAP, regular expressions can be used in the statements FIND and REPLACE, as arguments in certain predefined functions, and in the classes CL_ABAP_REGEX and CL_ABAP_MATCHER.

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