IDE regular expressions/fr
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Normal regular expression
Metacharacters:
\ Quote the next metacharacter
^ Match the beginning of the line
. Match any character (except newline). Example: 'a.c' matches 'abc', 'aBC', 'axc', 'a3c', 'a$c', etc.
$ Match the end of the line (or before newline at the end)
| Alternation
() Grouping. For example: (abc)+ matches 'abc' or 'abcabc' or 'abcabcabc' etc.
[] Character class. For example [abc], [a-z], [a-zA-Z0-9_]
[^] Reversed character class. For example [^a-z]Quantifiers:
* Match 0 or more times
+ Match 1 or more times
??? Match 1 or 0 times
{n} Match exactly n times
{n,} Match at least n times
{n,m} Match at least n but not more than m timesCurly brackets in any other context is treated as a regular character. The *_is equivalent to {0,}, the+_ to {1,} and the ``?to {0,1}.
By default, a quantifier is greedy , that means, it will match as many times as possible. To match the minimum number of times possible, append a ``?.
*? Match 0 or more times
+? Match 1 or more times
???? Match 0 or 1 time
{n}? Match exactly n times
{n,}? Match at least n times
{n,m}? Match at least n but not more than m timesSimple Syntax
Some IDE dialogs provide a checkbox to enable 'simple syntax'. These regular expressions are shorter for common file name filters.
Technically it does this:
The following characters are replaced with
. -> \.
* -> .*
??? -> .
, -> |
??; -> |
Finally enclose by ^( )$Quoted symbols
The backslash '' can be used to treat special characters like '.' as normal character or to get some special ranges.
\. matches a point '.'
\d matches a number character '0'..'9'
\D matches a non number character
\s matches a space character ' ',#9,#10,#12,#13
\S matches a non space character
\w matches a word character 'a'..'z','A'..'Z','0'..'9','_'
\W matches a non word character
\b word boundary
\B not word boundary
\A begin of line
\Z end of lineSearch and Replace with regular expressions
The find dialogs support regular expressions for finding and replacing. Each found pattern grouped in round brackets can be used by a $1, ..., $9 variable
For example:
- Find expression: a(.*)c
- Replace expression: A$1C
- Text: 'abc aLazc'
The $1 will be replaced with the found text, that matches the first bracket.
- Result: 'AbC ALazC'
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