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Regex

This manual documents how to program with the GNU regular expression library. This is edition 0.12a of the manual, 19 September 1992.

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1. Overview
2. Regular Expression Syntax
3. Common Operators
4. GNU Operators
5. GNU Emacs Operators
6. What Gets Matched?
7. Programming with Regex
A. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE		Copying and sharing Regex.
Index		General index.

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Regular Expression Syntax

2.1 Syntax Bits
2.2 Predefined Syntaxes
2.3 Collating Elements vs. Characters
2.4 The Backslash Character

Common Operators

3.1 The Match-self Operator (ordinary character)		Ordinary characters.
3.2 The Match-any-character Operator (.)		.
3.3 The Concatenation Operator		Juxtaposition.
3.4 Repetition Operators		* + ? {}
3.5 The Alternation Operator (| or \|)		|
3.6 List Operators ([ ... ] and [^ ... ])		[...] [^...]
3.7 Grouping Operators (( ... ) or \( ... \))		(...)
3.8 The Back-reference Operator (\digit)		\digit
3.9 Anchoring Operators		^ $

Repetition Operators    

3.4.1 The Match-zero-or-more Operator (*)		*
3.4.2 The Match-one-or-more Operator (+ or \+)		+
3.4.3 The Match-zero-or-one Operator (? or \?)		?
3.4.4 Interval Operators ({ ... } or \{ ... \})		{}

List Operators ([ ... ] and [^ ... ])

3.6.1 Character Class Operators ([: ... :])		[:class:]
3.6.2 The Range Operator (-)		start-end

Anchoring Operators    

3.9.1 The Match-beginning-of-line Operator (^)		^
3.9.2 The Match-end-of-line Operator ($)		$

GNU Operators

4.1 Word Operators
4.2 Buffer Operators

Word Operators

4.1.1 Non-Emacs Syntax Tables
4.1.2 The Match-word-boundary Operator (\b)		\b
4.1.3 The Match-within-word Operator (\B)		\B
4.1.4 The Match-beginning-of-word Operator (\<)		\<
4.1.5 The Match-end-of-word Operator (\>)		\>
4.1.6 The Match-word-constituent Operator (\w)		\w
4.1.7 The Match-non-word-constituent Operator (\W)		\W

Buffer Operators    

4.2.1 The Match-beginning-of-buffer Operator (\`)		\`
4.2.2 The Match-end-of-buffer Operator (\')		\'

GNU Emacs Operators

5.1 Syntactic Class Operators

Syntactic Class Operators

5.1.1 Emacs Syntax Tables
5.1.2 The Match-syntactic-class Operator (\sclass)		\sCLASS
5.1.3 The Match-not-syntactic-class Operator (\Sclass)		\SCLASS

Programming with Regex

7.1 GNU Regex Functions
7.2 POSIX Regex Functions
7.3 BSD Regex Functions

GNU Regex Functions

7.1.1 GNU Pattern Buffers		The re_pattern_buffer type.
7.1.2 GNU Regular Expression Compiling		re_compile_pattern ()
7.1.3 GNU Matching		re_match ()
7.1.4 GNU Searching		re_search ()
7.1.5 Matching and Searching with Split Data		re_match_2 (), re_search_2 ()
7.1.6 Searching with Fastmaps		re_compile_fastmap ()
7.1.7 GNU Translate Tables		The `translate' field.
7.1.8 Using Registers		The re_registers type and related fns.
7.1.9 Freeing GNU Pattern Buffers		regfree ()

POSIX Regex Functions

7.2.1 POSIX Pattern Buffers		The regex_t type.
7.2.2 POSIX Regular Expression Compiling		regcomp ()
7.2.3 POSIX Matching		regexec ()
7.2.4 Reporting Errors		regerror ()
7.2.5 Using Byte Offsets		The regmatch_t type.
7.2.6 Freeing POSIX Pattern Buffers		regfree ()

BSD Regex Functions

7.3.1 BSD Regular Expression Compiling		re_comp ()
7.3.2 BSD Searching		re_exec ()