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This template is to be used within the documentation for regular expressions. See the [[Regular expressions]] chapter for more details.

Note: Use &lt;nowiki&gt;|&lt;/nowiki&gt; to add a pipe into the ''regexp''. Other characters may need the &lt;nowiki&gt; and &lt;/nowiki&gt; as well.

= Examples =

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Search pattern like {{regexp|&lt;nowiki&gt;abc|xy&lt;/nowiki&gt;}} can search for both {{string|abc}} and {{string|xy}} at the same time.
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Search pattern like {{regexp|<nowiki>abc|xy</nowiki>}} can search for both {{string|abc}} and {{string|xy}} at the same time.


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Pattern {{regexp|c{3,5&lt;nowiki&gt;}&lt;/nowiki&gt;}} matches triple {{string|ccc}} or {{string|cccc}} or {{string|ccccc}}.
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Pattern {{regexp|c{3,5<nowiki>}</nowiki>}} matches triple {{string|ccc}} or {{string|cccc}} or {{string|ccccc}}.

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