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The WebMux™ Model 480S, 580SG, and 680PG User Guide – Version 7.0.x

Appendix 7 – Extended Regular Expressions

Example Patterns:

An item which has the string "Compiler" in it.

Compiler

Items with various spellings of "Dijkstra" with the j replaced by any character

Di.kstra

Items with various spellings of "Dijkstra" with the "ijk" replaced by any number of

characters

D.*stra

An item with either "Compiler" or "compiler" in it.

[cC]ompiler

String like bananas, banananas, bananananas etc.

bana(na)+s

Items with the strings "regular" and "expression" on the same line with anything

or nothing between them

regular.*expression

Items with either regular or expression (or both).

regular|expression

Items with either OO or "Object Oriented" or “Object-Oriented” on one line.

OO|([oO]bject( |\-)[oO]riented)

To search for characters other than letters or digits put a "\" in front of them.

S\/SL

These examples were taken from the following web page:

http://www.csci.csusb.edu/dick/samples/egrep.html