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A regular expression is a case-sensitive string of 1 to 256 characters that supports the special characters
in Table 6.
Table 6 Special characters supporte
d in a regular expression
Character Meanin
g
Exam
p
les
^string Matches the beginning of a line.
"^user" matches all lines beginning with "user". A
line beginning with "Auser" is not matched.
string$ Matches the end of a line.
"user$" matches lines ending with "user". A line
ending with "userA" is not matched.
.
Matches any single character, such
as a single character, a special
character, and a blank.
".s" matches both "as" and "bs".
*
Matches the preceding character or
character group zero or multiple
times.
"zo*" matches "z" and "zoo", and "(zo)*" matches
"zo" and "zozo".
+
Matches the preceding character or
character group one or multiple
times
"zo+" matches "zo" and "zoo", but not "z".
|
Matches the preceding or
succeeding character string
"def|int" only matches a character string
containing "def" or "int".
_
If it is at the beginning or the end of a
regular expression, it equals ^ or $.
In other cases, it equals comma,
space, round bracket, or curly
bracket.
"a_b" matches "a b" or "a(b"; "_ab" only matches
a line starting with "ab"; "ab_" only matches a line
ending with "ab".
-
It connects two values (the smaller
one before it and the bigger one
after it) to indicate a range together
with [ ].
"1-9" means 1 to 9 (inclusive); "a-h" means a to h
(inclusive).
[ ]
Matches a single character
contained within the brackets.
[16A] matches a string containing any character
among 1, 6, and A; [1-36A] matches a string
containing any character among 1, 2, 3, 6, and A
(- is a hyphen).
To match the character "]", put it at the beginning of
a string within brackets, for example [ ]string]. There
is no such limit on "[".
( )
A character group. It is usually used
with "+" or "*".
(123A) means a character group "123A";
"408(12)+" matches 40812 or 408121212. But it
does not match 408.
\index
Repeats the character string
specified by the index. A character
string refers to the string within ()
before \. index refers to the
sequence number (starting from 1
from left to right) of the character
group before \. If only one character
group appears before \, index can
only be 1; if n character groups
appear before index, index can be
any integer from 1 to n.
(string)\1 repeats string, and a matching string must
contain stringstring. (string1)(string2)\2 repeats
string2, and a matching string must contain
string1string2string2. (string1)(string2)\1\2
repeats string1 and string2 respectively, and a
matching string must contain
string1string2string1string2.

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