Kleene star

text (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.

(2000-07-26)