Slick V3.3 manual Unix Regular Expression Examples

UNIX Regular Expressions

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UNIX Regular Expression Examples

The table below shows examples of UNIX regular expressions.

Table 11.13. UNIX Regular Expression Examples

Sample UNIX Expression	Description
^defproc	Matches lines that begin with the word defproc.
^definit$	Matches lines that only contain the word definit.
^\*name	Matches lines that begin with the string *name. No-
	tice that the backslash must prefix the special char-
	acter *.
[\t ]	Matches tab and space characters.
[\d9\d32]	Matches tab and space characters.
[\x9\x20]	Matches tab and space characters.
p.t	Matches any three letter string starting with the let-
	ter p and ending with the letter t. Two possible
	matches are pot and pat.
s.*?t	Matches the letter s followed by any number of
	characters followed by the nearest letter t. Two pos-
	sible matches are seat and st.
forwhile	Matches the strings for or while.
^\:p	Matches lines beginning with a file name.
xy+z	Matches x followed by one or more occurrences of
	y followed by z.
[a-z-[qw]]	Character set subtraction. Matches all English
	lowercase letters except q and w.
[\p{isGreek}&[\p{L}]]	Character set intersection. Matches all Unicode let-

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