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== Regular Expressions ==
Regular Expressions are a quick and powerful way to describe text that matches a pattern and we use these in Filters. You must have the :{{checkbox|1}}{{man label|Use regular expressions}} option checked.
For example, if you were looking for a surname that started with a "B", and ended with "ship" then you could use regular expressions to describe that pattern. That would be '''^B.*ship''':