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Appendix B - Regular Expression Syntax

Regular Expression, often abbreviated regexp, is a standardized way to make patterns that match certain strings. Normal characters, such as A through Z only match themselves, but some characters have special meaning.

PatternMatches

.

Any one character.

[abc]

a, b or c.

[a-z]

Any character a to z inclusive.

[^ac]

Any character except a and c.

(x)

x, where x might be any regexp.

x*

Zero or more occurrences of x, where x may be any regexp.

x+

One or more occurrences of x, where x may be any regexp.

x|y

x or y, where x and y may be any regexp.

xy

xy, where x and y may be any regexp.

^

Beginning of string, but no characters.

$

End of string, but no characters.

\<

The beginning of a word, but no characters.

\>

end of a word, but no characters.

Some examples:

RegexpMatches

[0-9]+

One or more numeric characters.

(foo)|(bar)

Either "foo" or "bar".

\.html$

Any string ending in ".html".

^\.

Any string starting with a period.


Note!

\ can be used to quote these characters in which case they match themselves, nothing else.