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Metacharacter |
Definition |
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. |
Matches any character except newline |
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w |
Word character [a-zA-Z_0-9] & chars 170 181 186 192-255 |
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W |
Nonword character [^a-zA-Z_0-9] & chars 170 181 186 192-255 |
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d |
Digit [0-9] |
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D |
Nondigit [^0-9] |
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n |
Newline |
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r |
Carriage return |
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t |
Tab |
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f |
Form feed |
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s |
Whitespace [ fnrtvx85p{Z}] |
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S |
Nonwhitespace [^ fnrtvx85p{Z}] |
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^ |
Beginning of a string |
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$ |
End of a string |
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A |
Beginning of the string (multi-line mode) |
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Z |
End of the string (multi-line mode) |
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b |
Word Boundary, boundary between w and W |
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B |
Not a word boundary |
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p{prop} |
Character contained by Unicode property |
