Kleene star
Kleene closure
<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)