Quoted string :q Matches the expression (("[^"]*")|('[^']*')) Alphabetic string :w Matches the expression ([a-zA-Z]+) Decimal integer :z Matches the expression ([0-9]+). Escape \e Unicode U+001B. Bell \g Unicode U+0007. Backspace \h Unicode U+0008. Line break \n Match...
Regular expressions are a notation for describing sets of character strings. When a string is in the set described by a regular expression, we say that the regular expression matches the string.The simplest regular expression is a single literal character. Except for the metacharacters like *+?(...
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Obviously, some explanation is needed here. The negative lookahead (?!lemons) looks to the right to see if there's no word "lemons" ahead. If "lemons" is not there, then the dot matches any character except a line break. The above expression performs just one check, and the * quantifi...
In most regular expression flavors, the $ anchor can also match before a newline character or line break character (sequence), in a MULTILINE mode, where $ matches at the end of every line instead of only at the end of a string. For example, using g$ as our regex again, in multi...
If you want to indicate a line break when you construct your RegEx, use the sequence “\r\n”. Whether or not you will have line breaks in your expression depends on what you are trying to match. Line breaks can be useful “anchors” that define where some pattern occurs in re...
If you look at it closely in RegExr's text editor, you can observe the small break in the highlighting between the two matches, which is what I was talking about earlier. Note that the above regular expression also matches names that we did not consider and that might not even exist, ...
RegExNameSpecifies the name of the regular expression so that you can refer to the expression in the code for your add-in. RegExValueSpecifies the regular expression that will be evaluated to determine whether the add-in should be shown. ...
Anchors the match string to the end of a line. Beginning of word < Matches only when a word begins at this point in the text. End of word > Matches only when a word ends at this point in the text. Line break \n Matches a platform-independent line break. In a Replace expression, ...
lineBreakmatch \r \nlineBreak() brshorthand for lineBreakbr() tabmatch tabs \ttab() wordmatch \w+word() anyOfany of the listed charsanyOf('abc') anyshorthand for anyOfany('abc') rangeadds a range to the expressionrange(a,z,0,9) ...