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Brief Regular Expressions

Brief regular expressions are defined in the following table.

Table 11.16. Brief Regular Expressions

Brief Regular Expression	Definition
%	Matches beginning of line.
<	Matches beginning of line.
$	Matches end of line.
>	Matches end of line.
?	Matches any character except newline.
*	Minimal match of zero or more of any character ex-
	cept newline. This is the same as ?@.
X+	Minimal match of one or more occurrences of X.
	See Minimal versus Maximal Matching for more in-
	formation.
X\:*	Maximal match of zero or more of any character ex-
	cept newline. This is the same as ?\:@.
X\:@	Maximal match of zero or more occurrences of X.
X\:+	Maximal match of one or more occurrences of X.
X\:n1	Matches exactly n1 occurrences of X. Use {} to
	avoid ambiguous expressions. For example, a:9{}1
	searches for nine instances of the letter a followed
	by a 1.
X\:n1,	Maximal match of at least n1 occurrences of X.
X\:,n2	Maximal match of at least zero occurrences but not
	more than n2 occurrences of X.
X\:n1,n2	Maximal match of at least n1 occurrences but not
	more than n2 occurrences of X.
X\:n1?	Match exactly n1 occurrences of X.
X\:n1,?	Minimal match of at least n1 occurrences of X.

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