Kleene star

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Kleene star - (Or "Kleene closure", named after Stephen Kleene) The postfix "*" operator used in regular expressions, Extended Backus-Naur Form, and similar formalisms to specify a match for zero or more occurrences of the preceding expression. For example, the regular expression "be*t" would match the string "bt", "bet", "beet", "beeeeet", and so on.

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Kléber, Jean Baptiste
Kleberg, Robert J., Jr.
Klebs, Edwin
Klebsiella
Klee
Klee, Paul
Kleene closure
Kleene star
Kleene, Stephen Cole
Kleiber, Erich
Klein
Klein, Anne
Klein, Calvin
Klein, Calvin Richard
Klein, Charles

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