
For instance, the regex foo matches the string foo, the regex +:\d+ matches string fragments like F:1 and GO:30, and the regex (?<=)(?=) matches the position in the string CamelCase where we shift from a lower-case letter to an upper-case letter. Those text strings describe patterns to find text or positions within a body of text.

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