Programmer Studio provides a number of predefined compound regular expressions for matching common string patterns. These greatly simplify the task of building a compound regular expression.
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To match |
Use |
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An alphanumeric character |
\:a |
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An alphabetic character |
\:c |
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A control character |
\:n |
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A numeric character |
\:d |
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A graphical character |
\:g |
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A lowercase character |
\:l |
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An uppercase character |
\:u |
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A printable character |
\:p |
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White-space character |
\:b |
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Hexadecimal character |
\:h |
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Any string enclosed in quotes, such as æsampleÆ or ôsampleö |
\:q |
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Any string enclosed in single quotes, such as æsampleÆ |
\:QS |
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Any string enclosed in double quotes, such as ôsampleö |
\:QD |
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