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Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Meta-character Matches
(...) parentheses Provides grouping for quantifiers, limits scope of
alternation via precedence.
Example: (abc)* matches 0 or more occurrences of the
the string abc
Example: WhatsUp (Gold)|(Professional) matches
"WhatsUp Gold" or "WhatsUp Professional"
\0, \1, ... backreference Matches text previously matched within first, second,
etc, match group (starting at 0).
Example: .*? matches
"xxx".
! negation The expression following ! does not match the input
Example: a!b matches "a" not followed by "b".
Abbreviations
Abbreviations are shorthand Meta-characters.
Abbreviation Matches
\a Any alphanumeric character: ([a-zA-Z0-9])
\b White space (blank): ([ \\t])
\c Any alphabetic character: ([a-zA-Z])
\d Any decimal digit: [0-9]
\D Any non decimal digit: [^0-9]
\h Any hexadecimal digit: ([0-9a-fA-F])
\n Newline: (\r|(\r?\n))
\p Any punctuation character: ,./\';:"!?@#$%^&*()[]{}- _=+|!~
\P Any non-punctuation character
\q A quoted string: (\"[^\"]*\")|(\'[^\']*\')
\s WhatsUp Gold style white space character: [ \\t\\n\\r\\f\\v]
\S WhatsUp Gold style non-white space character:
[^ \\t\\n\\r\\f\\v]
\w Any word characters (letters and digits): ([a-zA-Z0-9_])
\W Non-word character: ([^a-zA-Z0-9_])
\z An integer: ([0-9]+)
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