"BRE" meaning in English

See BRE in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: BREs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} BRE (plural BREs)
  1. (computing) Initialism of basic regular expression. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: basic regular expression

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