"regex golf" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} regex golf (uncountable)
  1. 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. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Regular expressions Related terms: code golf

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