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regexp
Topic: Regexp.
The term "regexp" is an abbreviation for "regular expression," and can
be used to do really neat filters and searches on strings. The
following describes how regexp matches operate:
. Match any character.
^ Match begin of line.
$ Match end of line.
\< Match begin of word.
\> Match end of word.
\B not at edge of a word (supposed to be like the emacs
compatibility one in gnu egrep), since 3.2@249
x|y Match regexp x or regexp y.
() Match enclosed regexp like a 'simple' one.
x* Match any number (0 or more) of regexp x.
[..] Match one of the characters enclosed.
[^ ..] Match none of the characters enclosed. The .. are to
replaced by single characters or character ranges:
[abc] matches a, b or c.
[ab0-9] matches a, b or any digit.
[^a-z] does not match any lowercase character.
\c match character c even if it's one of the special characters.
If there is an error in the regular expression 0 will be
returned. Remember that the character "\" has to be escaped
with a "\" when written as a LPC string.
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