SlickEdit Corev3.3 for Eclipse, User Manual

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Sample Brief Regular Expression Description
tice that the backslash must prefix the special char-
acter
* .
[\t ] Matches tab and space characters.
[\d9\d32] 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 .
{for}|{while} 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 .
Unicode Category Specifications for Regular Expressions
The Unicode consortium standard regular expression categories are supported. The syntax for specifying
categories is:
\p{
MainCategoryLetter Subcategories
}
The above syntax matches the categories specified. The following syntax matches all characters not in
the categories specified:
\P{
MainCategoryLetter Subcategories
}
The \p and \P notations can only be used inside a character set specification.
MainCategoryLetter
can be L , M , N , P , S , Z , or C . The valid
Subcategories
depend on the
MainCategoryLetter
spe-
cified. If no
Subcategories
are specified, all are assumed. For example:
• [\p{L}] matches all Unicode letters.
• [\p{Lul}] matches all uppercase and lowercase letters.
• [\P{L}] matches all characters that are not letters.
Unicode Category Specifications
for Regular Expressions
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