Lookahead

Noun

Definitions

1.NounThe analysis in advance of subsequent decisions that would be made if a particular branch of an algorithm was followed.

"Our computer chess program uses lookahead to avoid difficult endgames."

2.NounThe analysis of the subsequent characters before the regular expression is matched.

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