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Regular Expression rules

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Regular Expression rules support operation of the Rule Security Analyzer by defining patterns of text that when found in the code being examined, cause the analyzer to report potential security issues.

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Regular Expression rules are part of the Security category. A regular expression rule is an instance of the Rule-SecurityVA-Regex rule type.