Basic Regular Expressions (UNIX)

Wednesday, 14 January 2009 12:58

Basic Regular Expressions

^abc	BOL	abc at the beginning of the line
abc$	EOL	abc at the end of the line
A*	Any amount of characters	matches any sqec or more of A`s i.e A, AAAAAA, AA, AAAAAAAAAA
.	Any 1 Character	Any Character
.*	Any Characters	Any Characters
a[a-z0-9]c	Range	Between a and c any lowercase letter or number i.e a7c avc