nomenclature
 

Hello

I wonder what the commonly used nomenclature in a regex environment
for the following sentence is. "The regex is applied to the target
string". I mean especially the verb "being applied" and the noun
"target string".
A longer sentence which makes it more clear what I mean: If the regex
'bi*g' applied to the target string 'He is big', 'big' is matched.

Flo