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Testing and Maintaining Web Pages
Expression examples
The following examples show some regular expressions and describe what they match
Expression
[\?&]value=
[A-Z]:(\\[A-Z0-9_]+)+
[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*
([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)(\.[A
-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_]*)?
(\+|-)?[1-9][0-9]*
(\+|-)?[1-9][0-9]*(\.[0-9]*)
?
(\+|-)?[1-9]\.[0-9]*E(\+|-)?
[0-9]+
a{2,4}
(ba){3,}
Resources
An excellent reference on regular expressions is Mastering Regular Expressions by
Jeffrey E.F. Friedl, published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Description
A URL parameter value in a URL
An uppercase DOS/Windows full path that (a) is not the
root of a drive, and (b) has only letters, numbers, and
underscores in its text
A ColdFusion variable with no qualifier
A ColdFusion variable with no more than one qualifier,
for example, Form.VarName, but not
Form.Image.VarName
An integer that does not begin with a zero and has an
optional sign
A real number
A real number in engineering notation
Two to four occurrences of "a": aa, aaa, aaaa
At least three "ba" pairs: bababa, babababa, ...
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