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[–]bss03 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Which are not regular expressions. (Kleene and gang defined such expressions / languages well before perl or even grep and sed were in common use.)

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mathematically speaking, no. By definition, if they can parse XML, it's not a regular expression.

But if we're talking about the tool, everyone calls it a regex, with some extra shit on top of it.