Brief Regular Expressions; Slickedit Regular Expression Examples - SlickEdit V3.3 User Manual

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SlickEdit Regular Expression Examples
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The table below shows examples of SlickEdit regular expressions.
Table 11.15. SlickEdit Regular Expression Examples
Sample SlickEdit Regular Expression
^defproc
^definit$
^\:name
[\t ]
[\9\32]
[\x9\x20]
p?t
s?*t
for|while
^:p
xy+z

Brief Regular Expressions

Brief Regular Expressions
Description
Matches lines that begin with the word defproc.
Matches lines that only contain the word definit.
Matches lines that begin with the string :name. No-
tice that the backslash must prefix the colon charac-
ter (:).
Matches tab and space characters.
Matches tab and space characters.
Matches tab and space characters.
Matches any three-letter string starting with the let-
ter p and ending with the letter t. Two possible
matches are pot and pat.
Matches the letter s followed by any number of
characters followed by the nearest letter t. Two pos-
sible matches are seat and st.
Matches the strings for or while.
Matches lines beginning with a file name.
Matches x followed by one or more occurrences of
y followed by z.
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