TO PRECEDE OR TO FOLLOW = to come before or after something
• An assertion is a test on the characters following or preceding the current matching point
TO LOCATE = to find the exact position of something
• We cannot locate the hotel with GPS even typing the address.
• Assisting a consumer in locating a product within a retail store.
• Locating information within extended hypermedia .
TO PLACE = to put something somewhere, especially with care [= put]:
• Always place the code that require the most processing power last in relational operations.
• You can place a single event handler on the containing element instead of on all its childred.
TO ARRANGE = to put a group of things in a particular order or position.
• Tips for arranging living room furniture.
• How to arrange flowers in a vase.
• In Microsoft Windows you can arrange the desktop icons by name, size, type and latest modified date.
• A FlowPanel arranges components in a directional flow.
LEADING - TRAILING - IN-BETWEEN = coming in the front part - in the back part - in the middle of something
• How to remove the leading and trailing white spaces from a string.
• You can find unwanted blanks everywhere: Leading, Trailing, In-Between.
THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF SOMETHING
• The multiline option changes the interpretation of the ^ and $ elements so that they match the beginning and end of a line, instead of the beginning and end of the input string.
• At the beginning of the chapter we mentioned that ...
AHEAD OR BEHIND = a short distance in front or at the back of someone or something:
• Look-ahead and look-behind, collectively called "look-around", are zero-length assertions just like the start and end of line, and start and end of word anchors.
• He kept his gaze fixed on the car ahead.
INTERMEDIATE /ˌɪn tərˈmi di ɪt/ = (adj) being, situated between two points, stages, things, persons, etc.:
• It takes a lot of time to go from English intermediate level to upper level.
