Slick V3.3 manual SlickEdit Regular Expressions Definition, N1,n2, #dX

SlickEdit®	Regular Expressions
SlickEdit Regular Expression		Definition
		avoid ambiguous expressions. For example a:9()1
		searches for nine instance of the letter a followed
		by a 1.
X:n1,		Maximal match of at least n1 occurrences of X.
X:n1,n2		Maximal match of at least n1 occurrences but not
		more than n2 occurrences of X.
X:*n1,		Minimal match of at least n1 occurrences of X.
X:*n1,n2		Minimal match of at least n1 occurrences but not
		more than n2 occurrences of X.
~X		Search fails if expression X is matched. The ex-
		pression ^~(if) matches the beginning of all lines
		that do not start with if.
(X)		Matches sub-expression X.
{X}		Matches sub-expression X and specifies a new
		tagged expression. See Using Tagged Search Ex-
		pressions for more information.
{#dX}		Matches sub-expression X and specifies to use
		tagged expression number d where 0<=d<=9.
XY		Matches X or Y.
[char-set]		Matches any one of the characters specified by
		char-set. A dash (-) character may be used to
		specify ranges. The expression [A-Z]matches any
		uppercase letter. Backslash (\) may be used inside
		the square brackets to define literal characters or
		define ASCII characters. For example, \- specifies a
		literal dash character. The expression [\0-\27]
		matches ASCII character codes 0..27. The expres-
		sion [] matches no characters. In UNIX regular ex-
		pressions, []] matches a right bracket. In both syn-
		taxes, the expression [\]] matches a right bracket.
		The expression [\^] matches a caret (^) character in
		both syntaxes.
[~char-set]		Matches any character not specified by char-set.
		A dash (-) character may be used to specify ranges.
		The expression [~A-Z]matches all characters ex-

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