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p
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p
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...
is a pattern object which represents any of the patterns
p
i
.
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If a named pattern such as
x_
appears in
p
i
that are not used in a particular match, then the named pattern is taken to have a value that is a zero-length sequence
Sequence
[]
.
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:
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(1)
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StringExpression
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