Subexpression

"Subexpression" in a Sentence (2 examples)

The third part of the regular expression, \1, is the backreference and tells ColdFusion to refer back to the first subexpression[…]

Something to note that's shared between all subexpressions (as well as scriptblocks) is that the end of a line does not terminate the subexpression.

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