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\ | Mark the next character as a special character, or an primitive character, or a backward reference, or an octal escape character. For example, "n" matches the character "n". "\n" matches a newline character. The sequence "\\" matches "\" and "\(" matches "(". |
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^ | Matches the start position of the input string. If the Multiline property of the RegExp object is set, ^ also matches the position after "\n" or "\r". |
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$ | Matches the end position of the input string. If the Multiline property of the RegExp object is set, $ also matches the position before "\n" or "\r". |
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* | Matches the previous subexpression zero or multiple times. For example, zo* can match "z" and "zoo". *Equivalent to {0,}. |
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+ | Matches the previous subexpression once or more times. For example, "zo+" can match "zo" and "zoo", but cannot match "z". + is equivalent to {1,}. |
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? | Matches the previous subexpression zero or once. For example, "do(es)?" can match "do" in "do" or "does". ?Equivalent to {0,1}. |
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{n} | n is a non-negative integer. Match the n times that are determined. For example, "o{2}" cannot match "o" in "Bob", but can match two os in "food". |
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{n,} | n is a non-negative integer. Match at least n times. For example, "o{2,}" cannot match "o" in "Bob", but can match all os in "fooooood". "o{1,}" is equivalent to "o+". "o{0,}" is equivalent to "o*". |
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{n,m} | Both m and n are non-negative integers, where n<=m. Match at least n times and match up to m times. For example, "o{1,3}" will match the first three os in "foooooood". "o{0,1}" is equivalent to "o?". Please note that there cannot be spaces between commas and two numbers. |
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? | When the character is immediately followed by any other restriction character (*,+,?,{n},{n,},{n,m}), the matching pattern is non-greedy. The non-greedy pattern matches as few strings as possible, while the default greedy pattern matches as many strings as possible. For example, for the string "oooo", "o+?" will match a single "o", and "o+" will match all "o". |
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. | Match any single character except "\n". To match any character including "\n", use a pattern like "[.\n]". |
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(pattern) | Match pattern and get this match. The obtained matches can be obtained from the generated Matches collection, using the SubMatches collection in VBScript, and using the $0…$9 attribute in JScript. To match parentheses characters, use "\(" or "\)". |
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(?:pattern) | Match pattern but do not get the matching result, that is, this is a non-get match and is not stored for future use. This is useful when using the character "(|)" to combine various parts of a pattern. For example, "industr(?:y|ies)" is an expression that is simpler than "industry|industries". |
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(?=pattern) | Forward pre-check, match the lookup string at the beginning of any string matching pattern. This is a non-get match, that is, the match does not need to be retrieved for later use. For example, "Windows(?=95|98|NT|2000)" can match "Windows" in "Windows2000", but cannot match "Windows" in "Windows3.1". Pre-checking does not consume characters, that is, after a match occurs, the next match's search begins immediately after the last match, rather than after the characters containing the pre-checking. |
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(?!pattern) | Negative pre-check, matching the lookup string at the beginning of any string that does not match the pattern. This is a non-get match, that is, the match does not need to be retrieved for later use. For example, "Windows(?!95|98|NT|2000)" can match "Windows" in "Windows3.1", but cannot match "Windows" in "Windows2000". Pre-checking does not consume characters, that is, after a match occurs, the next match search begins immediately after the last match, rather than after the characters containing the pre-checking |
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x|y | Match x or y. For example, "z|food" can match "z" or "food". "(z|f)ood" matches "zood" or "food". |
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[xyz] | Character collection. Match any character contained. For example, "[abc]" can match "a" in "plain". |
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[^xyz] | A collection of negative values characters. Match any characters not included. For example, "[^abc]" can match "p" in "plain". |
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[a-z] | Character range. Match any character in the specified range. For example, "[a-z]" can match any lowercase alphabetical characters in the range "a" to "z". |
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[^a-z] | Negative value character range. Match any arbitrary characters that are not within the specified range. For example, "[^a-z]" can match any arbitrary character that is not in the range of "a" to "z". |
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\b | Match a word boundary, which means the position between the word and space. For example, "er\b" can match "er" in "never", but cannot match "er" in "verb". |
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\B | Match non-word boundaries. "er\B" can match "er" in "verb", but cannot match "er" in "never". |
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\cx | Matches the control characters specified by x. For example, \cM matches a Control-M or carriage return character. The value of x must be one of A-Z or a-z. Otherwise, treat c as an original "c" character. |
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\d | Match a numeric character. Equivalent to [0-9]. |
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\D | Match a non-numeric character. Equivalent to [^0-9]. |
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\f | Match a page break. Equivalent to \x0c and \cL. |
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\n | Match a newline character. Equivalent to \x0a and \cJ. |
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\r | Match a carriage return character. Equivalent to \x0d and \cM. |
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\s | Match any whitespace characters, including spaces, tabs, page breaks, etc. Equivalent to [\f\n\r\t\v]. |
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\S | Match any non-whitespace characters. Equivalent to [^\f\n\r\t\v]. |
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\t | Match a tab character. Equivalent to \x09 and \cI. |
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\v | Match a vertical tab. Equivalent to \x0b and \cK. |
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\w | Match any word character that includes an underscore. Equivalent to "[A-Za-z0-9_]". |
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\W | Match any non-word characters. Equivalent to "[^A-Za-z0-9_]". |
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\xn | Match n, where n is a hexadecimal escape value. The hexadecimal escape value must be the length of two numbers that are determined. For example, "\x41" matches "A". "\x041" is equivalent to "\x04&1". ASCII encoding can be used in regular expressions. . |
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\num | Match num, where num is a positive integer. Reference to the obtained match. For example, "(.)\1" matches two consecutive identical characters. |
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\n | Identifies an octal escape value or a backward reference. If \n has at least n obtained subexpressions before, n is a backward reference. Otherwise, if n is an octal number (0-7), n is an octal escape value. |
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\nm | Identifies an octal escape value or a backward reference. If there are at least nm obtaining subexpressions before \nm, nm is a backward reference. If there are at least n retrieves before \nm, n is a backward reference followed by the literal m. If none of the previous conditions are satisfied, if n and m are octal numbers (0-7), then \nm will match the octal escape value nm. |
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\nml | If n is an octal number (0-3), and both m and l are octal numbers (0-7), the octal escape value nml is matched. |
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\un | Match n, where n is a Unicode character represented by four hexadecimal numbers. For example, \u00A9 matches the copyright symbol (?). |
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