HP UX SoftBench Software manual 358

Using Regular Expressions

Pattern Matching

Table C-1	Description of Special Characters in Regular Expressions
	To…	Use…	Example
	Match a range of	[-]	To match ab followed by
	values		any digit, enter:
			ab[0-9]
			To match any digit
			except 5, enter:
			[1-46-9]
			Note that if you need to
			match the dash (-), do
			not place it between
			any two characters that
			could be interpreted as
			a range of values. For
			example, a-zcould be
			interpreted as a range
			of values, while z-a
			would not. To avoid
			confusion, place it as
			the first or last
			character in your
			string. For example, to
			search for a dash (-),
			followed by any digit,
			enter:
			[-0-9]
	Match the	^match_expression	To match all
	beginning of a line		occurrences of stack
			that occur at the
			beginning of a line,
			enter:
			^stack

358 Appendix C