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Job Management Partner 1/Base User's Guide
The following table gives some examples of using regular expressions.
Specification Meaning String specified as a regular expression Example character string Match character-string Match lines containing the specified string. spring spring has come. Yes winter-summer-autumn-spring Yes ---- spring ----- Yes ^ character-string Match lines beginning with the specified string. ^spring spring has come. Yes winter-summer-autumn-spring -- -----spring----- -- character-string $ Match lines ending with the specified string. spring$ spring has come. -- winter-summer-autumn-spring Yes -----spring----- -- ^ character-string $ Match lines consisting of the specified string only. ^spring$ spring has come. -- winter-summer-autumn-spring -- spring Yes spring -- ^$ Match null lines. ^$ ![[Figure]](FIGURE/WHITE.GIF)
Yes spring -- . (period) Match any character. in.e winter has come. Yes mother of invention Yes life is in everything Yes eight nine ten -- increasing population -- s..ing picnic in spring Yes skiing in winter Yes [character-string] Signifies any of the characters specified in the string enclosed by [ and ]. [pr] spring has come. Yes today is Monday. -- [character-character] Signifies a single character within the range, in the ascending order of character codes. [a-i] spring has come. Yes [character-character] Signifies a single character out of the range, in the ascending order of character codes. [^a-i] spring has come. Yes character * Match strings containing zero or more repetitions of the preceding characters. ro*m terminal Yes cd-rom Yes living room Yes h.*n This is a pen. Yes That is an apple. Yes regular-expression | regular-expression Signifies either of the right and left regular expressions. [0-9]+|apple That is an apple. Yes spring in 2003 Yes \ special-character Handles a special character as an ordinary character. o\.h <stdio.h> Yes another man -- (regular-expression) Groups regular expressions. i(n.e|ng) winter has come. Yes interesting book Yes
- Legend:
- Bold type: Character string matching the specified regular expression.
- Blank: Null line.
- Yes: The example character string is a match.
- --: The example character string is not a match.
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