Slick V3.3 manual Brief Regular Expressions, SlickEdit Regular Expression Examples

Brief Regular Expressions

•+, #, *, @, :, :* (These operators have the same precedence.)

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SlickEdit® Regular Expression Examples

The table below shows examples of SlickEdit regular expressions.

Table 11.15. SlickEdit Regular Expression Examples

Sample SlickEdit Regular 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 colon charac-
	ter (:).
[\t ]	Matches tab and space characters.
[\9\32]	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.

Brief Regular Expressions

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