Unicode Category Specifications For Regular Expressions - SlickEdit V3.3 User Manual

Sample Brief Regular Expression
[\t ]
[\d9\d32]
[\x9\x20]
p?t
s*t
{for}|{while}
^\:p
xy+z

Unicode Category Specifications for Regular Expressions

The Unicode consortium standard regular expression categories are supported. The syntax for specifying
categories is:
\p{MainCategoryLetter Subcategories}
The above syntax matches the categories specified. The following syntax matches all characters not in
the categories specified:
\P{MainCategoryLetter Subcategories}
The \p and \P notations can only be used inside a character set specification. MainCategoryLetter
can be L, M, N, P, S, Z, or C. The valid Subcategories depend on the MainCategoryLetter spe-
cified. If no Subcategories are specified, all are assumed. For example:
• [\p{L}] matches all Unicode letters.
• [\p{Lul}] matches all uppercase and lowercase letters.
• [\P{L}] matches all characters that are not letters.
Unicode Category Specifications
for Regular Expressions
Description
tice that the backslash must prefix the special char-
acter *.
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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