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It's a - pattern that matches certain strings and doesn't match others. - @b See also - #wxRegEx - @ref differentflavors_overview - @ref resyntax_overview - @ref resynbracket_overview - #Escapes - #Metasyntax - #Matching - @ref relimits_overview - @ref resynbre_overview - @ref resynchars_overview - - - @section differentflavors Different Flavors of REs - - @ref resyn_overview - Regular expressions ("RE''s), as defined by POSIX, come in two - flavors: @e extended REs ("EREs'') and @e basic REs ("BREs''). EREs are roughly those - of the traditional @e egrep, while BREs are roughly those of the traditional - @e ed. This implementation adds a third flavor, @e advanced REs ("AREs''), basically - EREs with some significant extensions. - This manual page primarily describes - AREs. BREs mostly exist for backward compatibility in some old programs; - they will be discussed at the #end. POSIX EREs are almost an exact subset - of AREs. Features of AREs that are not present in EREs will be indicated. - - @section resyntax Regular Expression Syntax - - @ref resyn_overview - These regular expressions are implemented using - the package written by Henry Spencer, based on the 1003.2 spec and some - (not quite all) of the Perl5 extensions (thanks, Henry!). Much of the description - of regular expressions below is copied verbatim from his manual entry. - An ARE is one or more @e branches, separated by '@b |', matching anything that matches - any of the branches. - A branch is zero or more @e constraints or @e quantified - atoms, concatenated. It matches a match for the first, followed by a match - for the second, etc; an empty branch matches the empty string. - A quantified atom is an @e atom possibly followed by a single @e quantifier. Without a quantifier, - it matches a match for the atom. The quantifiers, and what a so-quantified - atom matches, are: - - - - - - - @b * - - - - - a sequence of 0 or more matches of the atom - - - - - - @b + - - - - - a sequence of 1 or more matches of the atom - - - - - - @b ? - - - - - a sequence of 0 or 1 matches of the atom - - - - - - @b {m} - - - - - a sequence of exactly @e m matches of the atom - - - - - - @b {m,} - - - - - a sequence of @e m or more matches of the atom - - - - - - @b {m,n} - - - - - a sequence of @e m through @e n (inclusive) - matches of the atom; @e m may not exceed @e n - - - - - - @b *? +? ?? {m}? {m,}? {m,n}? - - - - - @e non-greedy quantifiers, - which match the same possibilities, but prefer the - smallest number rather than the largest number of matches (see #Matching) - - - - - - The forms using @b { and @b } are known as @e bounds. The numbers @e m and @e n are unsigned - decimal integers with permissible values from 0 to 255 inclusive. - An atom is one of: - - - - - - - @b (re) - - - - - (where @e re is any regular expression) matches a match for - @e re, with the match noted for possible reporting - - - - - - @b (?:re) - - - - - as previous, but - does no reporting (a "non-capturing'' set of parentheses) - - - - - - @b () - - - - - matches an empty - string, noted for possible reporting - - - - - - @b (?:) - - - - - matches an empty string, without reporting - - - - - - @b [chars] - - - - - a @e bracket expression, matching any one of the @e chars - (see @ref resynbracket_overview for more detail) - - - - - - @b . - - - - - matches any single character - - - - - - @b \k - - - - - (where @e k is a non-alphanumeric character) - matches that character taken as an ordinary character, e.g. \\ matches a backslash - character - - - - - - @b \c - - - - - where @e c is alphanumeric (possibly followed by other characters), - an @e escape (AREs only), see #Escapes below - - - - - - @b { - - - - - when followed by a character - other than a digit, matches the left-brace character '@b {'; when followed by - a digit, it is the beginning of a @e bound (see above) - - - - - - @b x - - - - - where @e x is a single - character with no other significance, matches that character. - - - - - - A @e constraint matches an empty string when specific conditions are met. A constraint may - not be followed by a quantifier. The simple constraints are as follows; - some more constraints are described later, under #Escapes. - - - - - - - @b ^ - - - - - matches at the beginning of a line - - - - - - @b $ - - - - - matches at the end of a line - - - - - - @b (?=re) - - - - - @e positive lookahead - (AREs only), matches at any point where a substring matching @e re begins - - - - - - @b (?!re) - - - - - @e negative lookahead (AREs only), - matches at any point where no substring matching @e re begins - - - - - - The lookahead constraints may not contain back references - (see later), and all parentheses within them are considered non-capturing. - An RE may not end with '@b \'. - - @section wxresynbracket Bracket Expressions - - @ref resyn_overview - A @e bracket expression is a list - of characters enclosed in '@b []'. It normally matches any single character from - the list (but see below). If the list begins with '@b ^', it matches any single - character (but see below) @e not from the rest of the list. - If two characters - in the list are separated by '@b -', this is shorthand for the full @e range of - characters between those two (inclusive) in the collating sequence, e.g. - @b [0-9] in ASCII matches any decimal digit. Two ranges may not share an endpoint, - so e.g. @b a-c-e is illegal. Ranges are very collating-sequence-dependent, and portable - programs should avoid relying on them. - To include a literal @b ] or @b - in the - list, the simplest method is to enclose it in @b [. and @b .] to make it a collating - element (see below). Alternatively, make it the first character (following - a possible '@b ^'), or (AREs only) precede it with '@b \'. - Alternatively, for '@b -', make - it the last character, or the second endpoint of a range. To use a literal - @b - as the first endpoint of a range, make it a collating element or (AREs - only) precede it with '@b \'. With the exception of these, some combinations using - @b [ (see next paragraphs), and escapes, all other special characters lose - their special significance within a bracket expression. - Within a bracket - expression, a collating element (a character, a multi-character sequence - that collates as if it were a single character, or a collating-sequence - name for either) enclosed in @b [. and @b .] stands for the - sequence of characters of that collating element. - @e wxWidgets: Currently no multi-character collating elements are defined. - So in @b [.X.], @e X can either be a single character literal or - the name of a character. For example, the following are both identical - @b [[.0.]-[.9.]] and @b [[.zero.]-[.nine.]] and mean the same as - @b [0-9]. - See @ref resynchars_overview. - Within a bracket expression, a collating element enclosed in @b [= and @b =] - is an equivalence class, standing for the sequences of characters of all - collating elements equivalent to that one, including itself. - An equivalence class may not be an endpoint of a range. - @e wxWidgets: Currently no equivalence classes are defined, so - @b [=X=] stands for just the single character @e X. - @e X can either be a single character literal or the name of a character, - see @ref resynchars_overview. - Within a bracket expression, - the name of a @e character class enclosed in @b [: and @b :] stands for the list - of all characters (not all collating elements!) belonging to that class. - Standard character classes are: - - - - - - - @b alpha - - - - - A letter. - - - - - - @b upper - - - - - An upper-case letter. - - - - - - @b lower - - - - - A lower-case letter. - - - - - - @b digit - - - - - A decimal digit. - - - - - - @b xdigit - - - - - A hexadecimal digit. - - - - - - @b alnum - - - - - An alphanumeric (letter or digit). - - - - - - @b print - - - - - An alphanumeric (same as alnum). - - - - - - @b blank - - - - - A space or tab character. - - - - - - @b space - - - - - A character producing white space in displayed text. - - - - - - @b punct - - - - - A punctuation character. - - - - - - @b graph - - - - - A character with a visible representation. - - - - - - @b cntrl - - - - - A control character. - - - - - - A character class may not be used as an endpoint of a range. - @e wxWidgets: In a non-Unicode build, these character classifications depend on the - current locale, and correspond to the values return by the ANSI C 'is' - functions: isalpha, isupper, etc. In Unicode mode they are based on - Unicode classifications, and are not affected by the current locale. - There are two special cases of bracket expressions: - the bracket expressions @b [[::]] and @b [[::]] are constraints, matching empty - strings at the beginning and end of a word respectively. A word is defined - as a sequence of word characters that is neither preceded nor followed - by word characters. A word character is an @e alnum character or an underscore - (@b _). These special bracket expressions are deprecated; users of AREs should - use constraint escapes instead (see #Escapes below). - - @section wxresynescapes Escapes - - @ref resyn_overview - Escapes (AREs only), - which begin with a @b \ followed by an alphanumeric character, come in several - varieties: character entry, class shorthands, constraint escapes, and back - references. A @b \ followed by an alphanumeric character but not constituting - a valid escape is illegal in AREs. In EREs, there are no escapes: outside - a bracket expression, a @b \ followed by an alphanumeric character merely stands - for that character as an ordinary character, and inside a bracket expression, - @b \ is an ordinary character. (The latter is the one actual incompatibility - between EREs and AREs.) - Character-entry escapes (AREs only) exist to make - it easier to specify non-printing and otherwise inconvenient characters - in REs: - - - - - - - @b \a - - - - - alert (bell) character, as in C - - - - - - @b \b - - - - - backspace, as in C - - - - - - @b \B - - - - - synonym - for @b \ to help reduce backslash doubling in some applications where there - are multiple levels of backslash processing - - - - - - @b \c@e X - - - - - (where X is any character) - the character whose low-order 5 bits are the same as those of @e X, and whose - other bits are all zero - - - - - - @b \e - - - - - the character whose collating-sequence name is - '@b ESC', or failing that, the character with octal value 033 - - - - - - @b \f - - - - - formfeed, as in C - - - - - - @b \n - - - - - newline, as in C - - - - - - @b \r - - - - - carriage return, as in C - - - - - - @b \t - - - - - horizontal tab, as in C - - - - - - @b \u@e wxyz - - - - - (where @e wxyz is exactly four hexadecimal digits) - the Unicode - character @b U+@e wxyz in the local byte ordering - - - - - - @b \U@e stuvwxyz - - - - - (where @e stuvwxyz is - exactly eight hexadecimal digits) reserved for a somewhat-hypothetical Unicode - extension to 32 bits - - - - - - @b \v - - - - - vertical tab, as in C are all available. - - - - - - @b \x@e hhh - - - - - (where - @e hhh is any sequence of hexadecimal digits) the character whose hexadecimal - value is @b 0x@e hhh (a single character no matter how many hexadecimal digits - are used). - - - - - - @b \0 - - - - - the character whose value is @b 0 - - - - - - @b \@e xy - - - - - (where @e xy is exactly two - octal digits, and is not a @e back reference (see below)) the character whose - octal value is @b 0@e xy - - - - - - @b \@e xyz - - - - - (where @e xyz is exactly three octal digits, and is - not a back reference (see below)) - the character whose octal value is @b 0@e xyz - - - - - - Hexadecimal digits are '@b 0'-'@b 9', '@b a'-'@b f', and '@b A'-'@b F'. Octal - digits are '@b 0'-'@b 7'. - The character-entry - escapes are always taken as ordinary characters. For example, @b \135 is @b ] in - ASCII, but @b \135 does not terminate a bracket expression. Beware, however, - that some applications (e.g., C compilers) interpret such sequences themselves - before the regular-expression package gets to see them, which may require - doubling (quadrupling, etc.) the '@b \'. - Class-shorthand escapes (AREs only) provide - shorthands for certain commonly-used character classes: - - - - - - - @b \d - - - - - @b [[:digit:]] - - - - - - @b \s - - - - - @b [[:space:]] - - - - - - @b \w - - - - - @b [[:alnum:]_] (note underscore) - - - - - - @b \D - - - - - @b [^[:digit:]] - - - - - - @b \S - - - - - @b [^[:space:]] - - - - - - @b \W - - - - - @b [^[:alnum:]_] (note underscore) - - - - - - Within bracket expressions, '@b \d', '@b \s', and - '@b \w' lose their outer brackets, and '@b \D', - '@b \S', and '@b \W' are illegal. (So, for example, - @b [a-c\d] is equivalent to @b [a-c[:digit:]]. - Also, @b [a-c\D], which is equivalent to - @b [a-c^[:digit:]], is illegal.) - A constraint escape (AREs only) is a constraint, - matching the empty string if specific conditions are met, written as an - escape: - - - - - - - @b \A - - - - - matches only at the beginning of the string - (see #Matching, below, - for how this differs from '@b ^') - - - - - - @b \m - - - - - matches only at the beginning of a word - - - - - - @b \M - - - - - matches only at the end of a word - - - - - - @b \y - - - - - matches only at the beginning or end of a word - - - - - - @b \Y - - - - - matches only at a point that is not the beginning or end of - a word - - - - - - @b \Z - - - - - matches only at the end of the string - (see #Matching, below, for - how this differs from '@b $') - - - - - - @b \@e m - - - - - (where @e m is a nonzero digit) a @e back reference, - see below - - - - - - @b \@e mnn - - - - - (where @e m is a nonzero digit, and @e nn is some more digits, - and the decimal value @e mnn is not greater than the number of closing capturing - parentheses seen so far) a @e back reference, see below - - - - - - A word is defined - as in the specification of @b [[::]] and @b [[::]] above. Constraint escapes are - illegal within bracket expressions. - A back reference (AREs only) matches - the same string matched by the parenthesized subexpression specified by - the number, so that (e.g.) @b ([bc])\1 matches @b bb or @b cc but not '@b bc'. - The subexpression - must entirely precede the back reference in the RE. Subexpressions are numbered - in the order of their leading parentheses. Non-capturing parentheses do not - define subexpressions. - There is an inherent historical ambiguity between - octal character-entry escapes and back references, which is resolved by - heuristics, as hinted at above. A leading zero always indicates an octal - escape. A single non-zero digit, not followed by another digit, is always - taken as a back reference. A multi-digit sequence not starting with a zero - is taken as a back reference if it comes after a suitable subexpression - (i.e. the number is in the legal range for a back reference), and otherwise - is taken as octal. - - @section remetasyntax Metasyntax - - @ref resyn_overview - In addition to the main syntax described above, - there are some special forms and miscellaneous syntactic facilities available. - Normally the flavor of RE being used is specified by application-dependent - means. However, this can be overridden by a @e director. If an RE of any flavor - begins with '@b ***:', the rest of the RE is an ARE. If an RE of any flavor begins - with '@b ***=', the rest of the RE is taken to be a literal string, with all - characters considered ordinary characters. - An ARE may begin with @e embedded options: a sequence @b (?xyz) - (where @e xyz is one or more alphabetic characters) - specifies options affecting the rest of the RE. These supplement, and can - override, any options specified by the application. The available option - letters are: - - - - - - - @b b - - - - - rest of RE is a BRE - - - - - - @b c - - - - - case-sensitive matching (usual default) - - - - - - @b e - - - - - rest of RE is an ERE - - - - - - @b i - - - - - case-insensitive matching (see #Matching, below) - - - - - - @b m - - - - - historical synonym for @b n - - - - - - @b n - - - - - newline-sensitive matching (see #Matching, below) - - - - - - @b p - - - - - partial newline-sensitive matching (see #Matching, below) - - - - - - @b q - - - - - rest of RE - is a literal ("quoted'') string, all ordinary characters - - - - - - @b s - - - - - non-newline-sensitive matching (usual default) - - - - - - @b t - - - - - tight syntax (usual default; see below) - - - - - - @b w - - - - - inverse - partial newline-sensitive ("weird'') matching (see #Matching, below) - - - - - - @b x - - - - - expanded syntax (see below) - - - - - - Embedded options take effect at the @b ) terminating the - sequence. They are available only at the start of an ARE, and may not be - used later within it. - In addition to the usual (@e tight) RE syntax, in which - all characters are significant, there is an @e expanded syntax, available - in AREs with the embedded - x option. In the expanded syntax, white-space characters are ignored and - all characters between a @b # and the following newline (or the end of the - RE) are ignored, permitting paragraphing and commenting a complex RE. There - are three exceptions to that basic rule: - - - a white-space character or '@b #' preceded - by '@b \' is retained - white space or '@b #' within a bracket expression is retained - white space and comments are illegal within multi-character symbols like - the ARE '@b (?:' or the BRE '@b \(' - - - Expanded-syntax white-space characters are blank, - tab, newline, and any character that belongs to the @e space character class. - Finally, in an ARE, outside bracket expressions, the sequence '@b (?#ttt)' (where - @e ttt is any text not containing a '@b )') is a comment, completely ignored. Again, - this is not allowed between the characters of multi-character symbols like - '@b (?:'. Such comments are more a historical artifact than a useful facility, - and their use is deprecated; use the expanded syntax instead. - @e None of these - metasyntax extensions is available if the application (or an initial @b ***= - director) has specified that the user's input be treated as a literal string - rather than as an RE. - - @section wxresynmatching Matching - - @ref resyn_overview - In the event that an RE could match more than - one substring of a given string, the RE matches the one starting earliest - in the string. If the RE could match more than one substring starting at - that point, its choice is determined by its @e preference: either the longest - substring, or the shortest. - Most atoms, and all constraints, have no preference. - A parenthesized RE has the same preference (possibly none) as the RE. A - quantified atom with quantifier @b {m} or @b {m}? has the same preference (possibly - none) as the atom itself. A quantified atom with other normal quantifiers - (including @b {m,n} with @e m equal to @e n) prefers longest match. A quantified - atom with other non-greedy quantifiers (including @b {m,n}? with @e m equal to - @e n) prefers shortest match. A branch has the same preference as the first - quantified atom in it which has a preference. An RE consisting of two or - more branches connected by the @b | operator prefers longest match. - Subject to the constraints imposed by the rules for matching the whole RE, subexpressions - also match the longest or shortest possible substrings, based on their - preferences, with subexpressions starting earlier in the RE taking priority - over ones starting later. Note that outer subexpressions thus take priority - over their component subexpressions. - Note that the quantifiers @b {1,1} and - @b {1,1}? can be used to force longest and shortest preference, respectively, - on a subexpression or a whole RE. - Match lengths are measured in characters, - not collating elements. An empty string is considered longer than no match - at all. For example, @b bb* matches the three middle characters - of '@b abbbc', @b (week|wee)(night|knights) - matches all ten characters of '@b weeknights', when @b (.*).* is matched against - @b abc the parenthesized subexpression matches all three characters, and when - @b (a*)* is matched against @b bc both the whole RE and the parenthesized subexpression - match an empty string. - If case-independent matching is specified, the effect - is much as if all case distinctions had vanished from the alphabet. When - an alphabetic that exists in multiple cases appears as an ordinary character - outside a bracket expression, it is effectively transformed into a bracket - expression containing both cases, so that @b x becomes '@b [xX]'. When it appears - inside a bracket expression, all case counterparts of it are added to the - bracket expression, so that @b [x] becomes @b [xX] and @b [^x] becomes '@b [^xX]'. - If newline-sensitive - matching is specified, @b . and bracket expressions using @b ^ will never match - the newline character (so that matches will never cross newlines unless - the RE explicitly arranges it) and @b ^ and @b $ will match the empty string after - and before a newline respectively, in addition to matching at beginning - and end of string respectively. ARE @b \A and @b \Z continue to match beginning - or end of string @e only. - If partial newline-sensitive matching is specified, - this affects @b . and bracket expressions as with newline-sensitive matching, - but not @b ^ and '@b $'. - If inverse partial newline-sensitive matching is specified, - this affects @b ^ and @b $ as with newline-sensitive matching, but not @b . and bracket - expressions. This isn't very useful but is provided for symmetry. - - @section relimits Limits And Compatibility - - @ref resyn_overview - No particular limit is imposed on the length of REs. Programs - intended to be highly portable should not employ REs longer than 256 bytes, - as a POSIX-compliant implementation can refuse to accept such REs. - The only - feature of AREs that is actually incompatible with POSIX EREs is that @b \ - does not lose its special significance inside bracket expressions. All other - ARE features use syntax which is illegal or has undefined or unspecified - effects in POSIX EREs; the @b *** syntax of directors likewise is outside - the POSIX syntax for both BREs and EREs. - Many of the ARE extensions are - borrowed from Perl, but some have been changed to clean them up, and a - few Perl extensions are not present. Incompatibilities of note include '@b \b', - '@b \B', the lack of special treatment for a trailing newline, the addition of - complemented bracket expressions to the things affected by newline-sensitive - matching, the restrictions on parentheses and back references in lookahead - constraints, and the longest/shortest-match (rather than first-match) matching - semantics. - The matching rules for REs containing both normal and non-greedy - quantifiers have changed since early beta-test versions of this package. - (The new rules are much simpler and cleaner, but don't work as hard at guessing - the user's real intentions.) - Henry Spencer's original 1986 @e regexp package, still in widespread use, - implemented an early version of today's EREs. There are four incompatibilities between @e regexp's - near-EREs ('RREs' for short) and AREs. In roughly increasing order of significance: - - - In AREs, @b \ followed by an alphanumeric character is either an escape or - an error, while in RREs, it was just another way of writing the alphanumeric. - This should not be a problem because there was no reason to write such - a sequence in RREs. - @b { followed by a digit in an ARE is the beginning of - a bound, while in RREs, @b { was always an ordinary character. Such sequences - should be rare, and will often result in an error because following characters - will not look like a valid bound. - In AREs, @b \ remains a special character - within '@b []', so a literal @b \ within @b [] must be - written '@b \\'. @b \\ also gives a literal - @b \ within @b [] in RREs, but only truly paranoid programmers routinely doubled - the backslash. - AREs report the longest/shortest match for the RE, rather - than the first found in a specified search order. This may affect some RREs - which were written in the expectation that the first match would be reported. - (The careful crafting of RREs to optimize the search order for fast matching - is obsolete (AREs examine all possible matches in parallel, and their performance - is largely insensitive to their complexity) but cases where the search - order was exploited to deliberately find a match which was @e not the longest/shortest - will need rewriting.) - - - - @section wxresynbre Basic Regular Expressions - - @ref resyn_overview - BREs differ from EREs in - several respects. '@b |', '@b +', and @b ? are ordinary characters and there is no equivalent - for their functionality. The delimiters for bounds - are @b \{ and '@b \}', with @b { and - @b } by themselves ordinary characters. The parentheses for nested subexpressions - are @b \( and '@b \)', with @b ( and @b ) by themselves - ordinary characters. @b ^ is an ordinary - character except at the beginning of the RE or the beginning of a parenthesized - subexpression, @b $ is an ordinary character except at the end of the RE or - the end of a parenthesized subexpression, and @b * is an ordinary character - if it appears at the beginning of the RE or the beginning of a parenthesized - subexpression (after a possible leading '@b ^'). Finally, single-digit back references - are available, and @b \ and @b \ are synonyms - for @b [[::]] and @b [[::]] respectively; - no other escapes are available. - - @section wxresynchars Regular Expression Character Names - - @ref resyn_overview - Note that the character names are case sensitive. - - - - - - - NUL - - - - - '\0' - - - - - - SOH - - - - - '\001' - - - - - - STX - - - - - '\002' - - - - - - ETX - - - - - '\003' - - - - - - EOT - - - - - '\004' - - - - - - ENQ - - - - - '\005' - - - - - - ACK - - - - - '\006' - - - - - - BEL - - - - - '\007' - - - - - - alert - - - - - '\007' - - - - - - BS - - - - - '\010' - - - - - - backspace - - - - - '\b' - - - - - - HT - - - - - '\011' - - - - - - tab - - - - - '\t' - - - - - - LF - - - - - '\012' - - - - - - newline - - - - - '\n' - - - - - - VT - - - - - '\013' - - - - - - vertical-tab - - - - - '\v' - - - - - - FF - - - - - '\014' - - - - - - form-feed - - - - - '\f' - - - - - - CR - - - - - '\015' - - - - - - carriage-return - - - - - '\r' - - - - - - SO - - - - - '\016' - - - - - - SI - - - - - '\017' - - - - - - DLE - - - - - '\020' - - - - - - DC1 - - - - - '\021' - - - - - - DC2 - - - - - '\022' - - - - - - DC3 - - - - - '\023' - - - - - - DC4 - - - - - '\024' - - - - - - NAK - - - - - '\025' - - - - - - SYN - - - - - '\026' - - - - - - ETB - - - - - '\027' - - - - - - CAN - - - - - '\030' - - - - - - EM - - - - - '\031' - - - - - - SUB - - - - - '\032' - - - - - - ESC - - - - - '\033' - - - - - - IS4 - - - - - '\034' - - - - - - FS - - - - - '\034' - - - - - - IS3 - - - - - '\035' - - - - - - GS - - - - - '\035' - - - - - - IS2 - - - - - '\036' - - - - - - RS - - - - - '\036' - - - - - - IS1 - - - - - '\037' - - - - - - US - - - - - '\037' - - - - - - space - - - - - ' ' - - - - - - exclamation-mark - - - - - '!' - - - - - - quotation-mark - - - - - '"' - - - - - - number-sign - - - - - '#' - - - - - - dollar-sign - - - - - '$' - - - - - - percent-sign - - - - - '%' - - - - - - ampersand - - - - - '' - - - - - - apostrophe - - - - - '\'' - - - - - - left-parenthesis - - - - - '(' - - - - - - right-parenthesis - - - - - ')' - - - - - - asterisk - - - - - '*' - - - - - - plus-sign - - - - - '+' - - - - - - comma - - - - - ',' - - - - - - hyphen - - - - - '-' - - - - - - hyphen-minus - - - - - '-' - - - - - - period - - - - - '.' - - - - - - full-stop - - - - - '.' - - - - - - slash - - - - - '/' - - - - - - solidus - - - - - '/' - - - - - - zero - - - - - '0' - - - - - - one - - - - - '1' - - - - - - two - - - - - '2' - - - - - - three - - - - - '3' - - - - - - four - - - - - '4' - - - - - - five - - - - - '5' - - - - - - six - - - - - '6' - - - - - - seven - - - - - '7' - - - - - - eight - - - - - '8' - - - - - - nine - - - - - '9' - - - - - - colon - - - - - ':' - - - - - - semicolon - - - - - ';' - - - - - - less-than-sign - - - - - '' - - - - - - equals-sign - - - - - '=' - - - - - - greater-than-sign - - - - - '' - - - - - - question-mark - - - - - '?' - - - - - - commercial-at - - - - - '@' - - - - - - left-square-bracket - - - - - '[' - - - - - - backslash - - - - - '\' - - - - - - reverse-solidus - - - - - '\' - - - - - - right-square-bracket - - - - - ']' - - - - - - circumflex - - - - - '^' - - - - - - circumflex-accent - - - - - '^' - - - - - - underscore - - - - - '_' - - - - - - low-line - - - - - '_' - - - - - - grave-accent - - - - - ''' - - - - - - left-brace - - - - - '{' - - - - - - left-curly-bracket - - - - - '{' - - - - - - vertical-line - - - - - '|' - - - - - - right-brace - - - - - '}' - - - - - - right-curly-bracket - - - - - '}' - - - - - - tilde - - - - - '~' - - - - - - DEL - - - - - '\177' - - */ - +/** + +@page overview_resyntax Regular Expressions + +A regular expression describes strings of characters. It's a pattern +that matches certain strings and doesn't match others. + +@li @ref overview_resyntax_differentflavors +@li @ref overview_resyntax_syntax +@li @ref overview_resyntax_bracket +@li @ref overview_resyntax_escapes +@li @ref overview_resyntax_metasyntax +@li @ref overview_resyntax_matching +@li @ref overview_resyntax_limits +@li @ref overview_resyntax_bre +@li @ref overview_resyntax_characters + +@see + +@li wxRegEx + + +
+ + +@section overview_resyntax_differentflavors Different Flavors of Regular Expressions + +Regular expressions (RE), as defined by POSIX, come in two flavors: +extended regular expressions (ERE) and basic regular +expressions (BRE). EREs are roughly those of the traditional @e egrep, +while BREs are roughly those of the traditional @e ed. This implementation +adds a third flavor: advanced regular expressions (ARE), basically +EREs with some significant extensions. + +This manual page primarily describes AREs. BREs mostly exist for backward +compatibility in some old programs. POSIX EREs are almost an exact subset of +AREs. Features of AREs that are not present in EREs will be indicated. + + +@section overview_resyntax_syntax Regular Expression Syntax + +These regular expressions are implemented using the package written by Henry +Spencer, based on the 1003.2 spec and some (not quite all) of the Perl5 +extensions (thanks, Henry!). Much of the description of regular expressions +below is copied verbatim from his manual entry. + +An ARE is one or more @e branches, separated by "|", matching anything that +matches any of the branches. + +A branch is zero or more @e constraints or @e quantified atoms, concatenated. +It matches a match for the first, followed by a match for the second, etc; an +empty branch matches the empty string. + +A quantified atom is an @e atom possibly followed by a single @e quantifier. +Without a quantifier, it matches a match for the atom. The quantifiers, and +what a so-quantified atom matches, are: + +@beginTable +@row2col{ * , + A sequence of 0 or more matches of the atom. } +@row2col{ + , + A sequence of 1 or more matches of the atom. } +@row2col{ ? , + A sequence of 0 or 1 matches of the atom. } +@row2col{ {m} , + A sequence of exactly @e m matches of the atom. } +@row2col{ {m\,} , + A sequence of @e m or more matches of the atom. } +@row2col{ {m\,n} , + A sequence of @e m through @e n (inclusive) matches of the atom; @e m may + not exceed @e n. } +@row2col{ *? +? ?? {m}? {m\,}? {m\,n}? , + @e Non-greedy quantifiers, which match the same possibilities, but prefer + the smallest number rather than the largest number of matches (see + @ref overview_resyntax_matching). } +@endTable + +The forms using @b { and @b } are known as @e bounds. The numbers @e m and +@e n are unsigned decimal integers with permissible values from 0 to 255 +inclusive. An atom is one of: + +@beginTable +@row2col{ (re) , + Where @e re is any regular expression, matches for @e re, with the match + captured for possible reporting. } +@row2col{ (?:re) , + As previous, but does no reporting (a "non-capturing" set of + parentheses). } +@row2col{ () , + Matches an empty string, captured for possible reporting. } +@row2col{ (?:) , + Matches an empty string, without reporting. } +@row2col{ [chars] , + A bracket expression, matching any one of the @e chars (see + @ref overview_resyntax_bracket for more details). } +@row2col{ . , + Matches any single character. } +@row2col{ @\k , + Where @e k is a non-alphanumeric character, matches that character taken + as an ordinary character, e.g. @\@\ matches a backslash character. } +@row2col{ @\c , + Where @e c is alphanumeric (possibly followed by other characters), an + @e escape (AREs only), see @ref overview_resyntax_escapes below. } +@row2col{ @leftCurly , + When followed by a character other than a digit, matches the left-brace + character "@leftCurly"; when followed by a digit, it is the beginning of a + @e bound (see above). } +@row2col{ x , + Where @e x is a single character with no other significance, matches that + character. } +@endTable + +A @e constraint matches an empty string when specific conditions are met. A +constraint may not be followed by a quantifier. The simple constraints are as +follows; some more constraints are described later, under +@ref overview_resyntax_escapes. + +@beginTable +@row2col{ ^ , + Matches at the beginning of a line. } +@row2col{ @$ , + Matches at the end of a line. } +@row2col{ (?=re) , + @e Positive lookahead (AREs only), matches at any point where a substring + matching @e re begins. } +@row2col{ (?!re) , + @e Negative lookahead (AREs only), matches at any point where no substring + matching @e re begins. } +@endTable + +The lookahead constraints may not contain back references (see later), and all +parentheses within them are considered non-capturing. A RE may not end with +"\". + + +@section overview_resyntax_bracket Bracket Expressions + +A bracket expression is a list of characters enclosed in []. +It normally matches any single character from the list (but see below). If the +list begins with @c ^, it matches any single character (but see below) @e not +from the rest of the list. + +If two characters in the list are separated by -, this is shorthand +for the full @e range of characters between those two (inclusive) in the +collating sequence, e.g. [0-9] in ASCII matches any decimal digit. +Two ranges may not share an endpoint, so e.g. a-c-e is illegal. +Ranges are very collating-sequence-dependent, and portable programs should +avoid relying on them. + +To include a literal ] or - in the list, the simplest method +is to enclose it in [. and .] to make it a collating element +(see below). Alternatively, make it the first character (following a possible +^), or (AREs only) precede it with @\. Alternatively, for +-, make it the last character, or the second endpoint of a range. To +use a literal - as the first endpoint of a range, make it a collating +element or (AREs only) precede it with @\. With the exception of +these, some combinations using [ (see next paragraphs), and escapes, +all other special characters lose their special significance within a bracket +expression. + +Within a bracket expression, a collating element (a character, a +multi-character sequence that collates as if it were a single character, or a +collating-sequence name for either) enclosed in [. and .] +stands for the sequence of characters of that collating element. + +@e wxWidgets: Currently no multi-character collating elements are defined. So +in [.X.], @c X can either be a single character literal or the name +of a character. For example, the following are both identical: +[[.0.]-[.9.]] and [[.zero.]-[.nine.]] and mean the same as +[0-9]. See @ref overview_resyntax_characters. + +Within a bracket expression, a collating element enclosed in [= and +=] is an equivalence class, standing for the sequences of characters +of all collating elements equivalent to that one, including itself. An +equivalence class may not be an endpoint of a range. + +@e wxWidgets: Currently no equivalence classes are defined, so [=X=] +stands for just the single character @c X. @c X can either be a single +character literal or the name of a character, see +@ref overview_resyntax_characters. + +Within a bracket expression, the name of a @e character class enclosed in +[: and :] stands for the list of all characters (not all +collating elements!) belonging to that class. Standard character classes are: + +@beginTable +@row2col{ alpha , A letter. } +@row2col{ upper , An upper-case letter. } +@row2col{ lower , A lower-case letter. } +@row2col{ digit , A decimal digit. } +@row2col{ xdigit , A hexadecimal digit. } +@row2col{ alnum , An alphanumeric (letter or digit). } +@row2col{ print , An alphanumeric (same as alnum). } +@row2col{ blank , A space or tab character. } +@row2col{ space , A character producing white space in displayed text. } +@row2col{ punct , A punctuation character. } +@row2col{ graph , A character with a visible representation. } +@row2col{ cntrl , A control character. } +@endTable + +A character class may not be used as an endpoint of a range. + +@e wxWidgets: In a non-Unicode build, these character classifications depend on +the current locale, and correspond to the values return by the ANSI C "is" +functions: isalpha, isupper, etc. In Unicode mode they are +based on Unicode classifications, and are not affected by the current locale. + +There are two special cases of bracket expressions: the bracket expressions +[[:@<:]] and [[:@>:]] are constraints, matching empty strings at +the beginning and end of a word respectively. A word is defined as a sequence +of word characters that is neither preceded nor followed by word characters. A +word character is an @e alnum character or an underscore (_). These special +bracket expressions are deprecated; users of AREs should use constraint escapes +instead (see escapes below). + + +@section overview_resyntax_escapes Escapes + +Escapes (AREs only), which begin with a @\ followed by an alphanumeric +character, come in several varieties: character entry, class shorthands, +constraint escapes, and back references. A @\ followed by an +alphanumeric character but not constituting a valid escape is illegal in AREs. +In EREs, there are no escapes: outside a bracket expression, a @\ +followed by an alphanumeric character merely stands for that character as an +ordinary character, and inside a bracket expression, @\ is an ordinary +character. (The latter is the one actual incompatibility between EREs and +AREs.) + +Character-entry escapes (AREs only) exist to make it easier to specify +non-printing and otherwise inconvenient characters in REs: + +@beginTable +@row2col{ @\a , Alert (bell) character, as in C. } +@row2col{ @\b , Backspace, as in C. } +@row2col{ @\B , + Synonym for @\ to help reduce backslash doubling in some + applications where there are multiple levels of backslash processing. } +@row2col{ @\cX , + The character whose low-order 5 bits are the same as those of @e X, and + whose other bits are all zero, where @e X is any character. } +@row2col{ @\e , + The character whose collating-sequence name is @c ESC, or failing that, + the character with octal value 033. } +@row2col{ @\f , Formfeed, as in C. } +@row2col{ @\n , Newline, as in C. } +@row2col{ @\r , Carriage return, as in C. } +@row2col{ @\t , Horizontal tab, as in C. } +@row2col{ @\uwxyz , + The Unicode character U+wxyz in the local byte ordering, where + @e wxyz is exactly four hexadecimal digits. } +@row2col{ @\Ustuvwxyz , + Reserved for a somewhat-hypothetical Unicode extension to 32 bits, where + @e stuvwxyz is exactly eight hexadecimal digits. } +@row2col{ @\v , Vertical tab, as in C are all available. } +@row2col{ @\xhhh , + The single character whose hexadecimal value is @e 0xhhh, where @e hhh is + any sequence of hexadecimal digits. } +@row2col{ @\0 , The character whose value is 0. } +@row2col{ @\xy , + The character whose octal value is @e 0xy, where @e xy is exactly two octal + digits, and is not a back reference (see below). } +@row2col{ @\xyz , + The character whose octal value is @e 0xyz, where @e xyz is exactly three + octal digits, and is not a back reference (see below). } +@endTable + +Hexadecimal digits are 0-9, a-f, and A-F. Octal digits are 0-7. + +The character-entry escapes are always taken as ordinary characters. For +example, @\135 is ] in ASCII, but @\135 does not +terminate a bracket expression. Beware, however, that some applications (e.g., +C compilers) interpret such sequences themselves before the regular-expression +package gets to see them, which may require doubling (quadrupling, etc.) the +'@\'. + +Class-shorthand escapes (AREs only) provide shorthands for certain +commonly-used character classes: + +@beginTable +@row2col{ @\d , [[:digit:]] } +@row2col{ @\s , [[:space:]] } +@row2col{ @\w , [[:alnum:]_] (note underscore) } +@row2col{ @\D , [^[:digit:]] } +@row2col{ @\S , [^[:space:]] } +@row2col{ @\W , [^[:alnum:]_] (note underscore) } +@endTable + +Within bracket expressions, @\d, @\s, and @\w lose +their outer brackets, and @\D, @\S, @\W are illegal. +So, for example, [a-c@\d] is equivalent to [a-c[:digit:]]. +Also, [a-c@\D], which is equivalent to [a-c^[:digit:]], is +illegal. + +A constraint escape (AREs only) is a constraint, matching the empty string if +specific conditions are met, written as an escape: + +@beginTable +@row2col{ @\A , Matches only at the beginning of the string, see + @ref overview_resyntax_matching for how this differs + from ^. } +@row2col{ @\m , Matches only at the beginning of a word. } +@row2col{ @\M , Matches only at the end of a word. } +@row2col{ @\y , Matches only at the beginning or end of a word. } +@row2col{ @\Y , Matches only at a point that is not the beginning or + end of a word. } +@row2col{ @\Z , Matches only at the end of the string, see + @ref overview_resyntax_matching for how this differs + from @$. } +@row2col{ @\m , A back reference, where @e m is a non-zero + digit. See below. } +@row2col{ @\mnn , + A back reference, where @e m is a nonzero digit, and @e nn is some + more digits, and the decimal value @e mnn is not greater than the number of + closing capturing parentheses seen so far. See below. } +@endTable + +A word is defined as in the specification of [[:@<:]] and +[[:@>:]] above. Constraint escapes are illegal within bracket +expressions. + +A back reference (AREs only) matches the same string matched by the +parenthesized subexpression specified by the number. For example, "([bc])\1" +matches "bb" or "cc" but not "bc". The subexpression must entirely precede the +back reference in the RE.Subexpressions are numbered in the order of their +leading parentheses. Non-capturing parentheses do not define subexpressions. + +There is an inherent historical ambiguity between octal character-entry escapes +and back references, which is resolved by heuristics, as hinted at above. A +leading zero always indicates an octal escape. A single non-zero digit, not +followed by another digit, is always taken as a back reference. A multi-digit +sequence not starting with a zero is taken as a back reference if it comes +after a suitable subexpression (i.e. the number is in the legal range for a +back reference), and otherwise is taken as octal. + + +@section overview_resyntax_metasyntax Metasyntax + +In addition to the main syntax described above, there are some special forms +and miscellaneous syntactic facilities available. + +Normally the flavor of RE being used is specified by application-dependent +means. However, this can be overridden by a @e director. If an RE of any flavor +begins with ***:, the rest of the RE is an ARE. If an RE of any +flavor begins with ***=, the rest of the RE is taken to be a literal +string, with all characters considered ordinary characters. + +An ARE may begin with embedded options: a sequence (?xyz) +(where @e xyz is one or more alphabetic characters) specifies options affecting +the rest of the RE. These supplement, and can override, any options specified +by the application. The available option letters are: + +@beginTable +@row2col{ b , Rest of RE is a BRE. } +@row2col{ c , Case-sensitive matching (usual default). } +@row2col{ e , Rest of RE is an ERE. } +@row2col{ i , Case-insensitive matching (see + @ref overview_resyntax_matching, below). } +@row2col{ m , Historical synonym for @e n. } +@row2col{ n , Newline-sensitive matching (see + @ref overview_resyntax_matching, below). } +@row2col{ p , Partial newline-sensitive matching (see + @ref overview_resyntax_matching, below). } +@row2col{ q , Rest of RE is a literal ("quoted") string, all ordinary + characters. } +@row2col{ s , Non-newline-sensitive matching (usual default). } +@row2col{ t , Tight syntax (usual default; see below). } +@row2col{ w , Inverse partial newline-sensitive ("weird") matching + (see @ref overview_resyntax_matching, below). } +@row2col{ x , Expanded syntax (see below). } +@endTable + +Embedded options take effect at the ) terminating the sequence. They +are available only at the start of an ARE, and may not be used later within it. + +In addition to the usual (@e tight) RE syntax, in which all characters are +significant, there is an @e expanded syntax, available in AREs with the +embedded x option. In the expanded syntax, white-space characters are ignored +and all characters between a @# and the following newline (or the end +of the RE) are ignored, permitting paragraphing and commenting a complex RE. +There are three exceptions to that basic rule: + +@li A white-space character or @# preceded by @\ is retained. +@li White space or @# within a bracket expression is retained. +@li White space and comments are illegal within multi-character symbols like + the ARE (?: or the BRE \(. + +Expanded-syntax white-space characters are blank, tab, newline, and any +character that belongs to the @e space character class. + +Finally, in an ARE, outside bracket expressions, the sequence (?@#ttt) +(where @e ttt is any text not containing a )) is a comment, completely +ignored. Again, this is not allowed between the characters of multi-character +symbols like (?:. Such comments are more a historical artifact than a +useful facility, and their use is deprecated; use the expanded syntax instead. + +@e None of these metasyntax extensions is available if the application (or an +initial ***= director) has specified that the user's input be treated +as a literal string rather than as an RE. + + +@section overview_resyntax_matching Matching + +In the event that an RE could match more than one substring of a given string, +the RE matches the one starting earliest in the string. If the RE could match +more than one substring starting at that point, the choice is determined by +it's @e preference: either the longest substring, or the shortest. + +Most atoms, and all constraints, have no preference. A parenthesized RE has the +same preference (possibly none) as the RE. A quantified atom with quantifier +{m} or {m}? has the same preference (possibly none) as the +atom itself. A quantified atom with other normal quantifiers (including +{m,n} with @e m equal to @e n) prefers longest match. A quantified +atom with other non-greedy quantifiers (including {m,n}? with @e m +equal to @e n) prefers shortest match. A branch has the same preference as the +first quantified atom in it which has a preference. An RE consisting of two or +more branches connected by the @c | operator prefers longest match. + +Subject to the constraints imposed by the rules for matching the whole RE, +subexpressions also match the longest or shortest possible substrings, based on +their preferences, with subexpressions starting earlier in the RE taking +priority over ones starting later. Note that outer subexpressions thus take +priority over their component subexpressions. + +Note that the quantifiers {1,1} and {1,1}? can be used to +force longest and shortest preference, respectively, on a subexpression or a +whole RE. + +Match lengths are measured in characters, not collating elements. An empty +string is considered longer than no match at all. For example, bb* +matches the three middle characters of "abbbc", +(week|wee)(night|knights) matches all ten characters of "weeknights", +when (.*).* is matched against "abc" the parenthesized subexpression +matches all three characters, and when (a*)* is matched against "bc" +both the whole RE and the parenthesized subexpression match an empty string. + +If case-independent matching is specified, the effect is much as if all case +distinctions had vanished from the alphabet. When an alphabetic that exists in +multiple cases appears as an ordinary character outside a bracket expression, +it is effectively transformed into a bracket expression containing both cases, +so that @c x becomes @c [xX]. When it appears inside a bracket expression, all +case counterparts of it are added to the bracket expression, so that @c [x] +becomes @c [xX] and @c [^x] becomes @c [^xX]. + +If newline-sensitive matching is specified, "." and bracket expressions using +"^" will never match the newline character (so that matches will never cross +newlines unless the RE explicitly arranges it) and "^" and "$" will match the +empty string after and before a newline respectively, in addition to matching +at beginning and end of string respectively. ARE @\A and @\Z +continue to match beginning or end of string @e only. + +If partial newline-sensitive matching is specified, this affects "." and +bracket expressions as with newline-sensitive matching, but not "^" and "$". + +If inverse partial newline-sensitive matching is specified, this affects "^" +and "$" as with newline-sensitive matching, but not "." and bracket +expressions. This isn't very useful but is provided for symmetry. + + +@section overview_resyntax_limits Limits and Compatibility + +No particular limit is imposed on the length of REs. Programs intended to be +highly portable should not employ REs longer than 256 bytes, as a +POSIX-compliant implementation can refuse to accept such REs. + +The only feature of AREs that is actually incompatible with POSIX EREs is that +@\ does not lose its special significance inside bracket expressions. +All other ARE features use syntax which is illegal or has undefined or +unspecified effects in POSIX EREs; the *** syntax of directors +likewise is outside the POSIX syntax for both BREs and EREs. + +Many of the ARE extensions are borrowed from Perl, but some have been changed +to clean them up, and a few Perl extensions are not present. Incompatibilities +of note include @\b, @\B, the lack of special treatment for a +trailing newline, the addition of complemented bracket expressions to the +things affected by newline-sensitive matching, the restrictions on parentheses +and back references in lookahead constraints, and the longest/shortest-match +(rather than first-match) matching semantics. + +The matching rules for REs containing both normal and non-greedy quantifiers +have changed since early beta-test versions of this package. The new rules are +much simpler and cleaner, but don't work as hard at guessing the user's real +intentions. + +Henry Spencer's original 1986 @e regexp package, still in widespread use, +implemented an early version of today's EREs. There are four incompatibilities +between @e regexp's near-EREs (RREs for short) and AREs. In roughly increasing +order of significance: + +@li In AREs, @\ followed by an alphanumeric character is either an + escape or an error, while in RREs, it was just another way of writing the + alphanumeric. This should not be a problem because there was no reason to + write such a sequence in RREs. +@li @c { followed by a digit in an ARE is the beginning of a bound, while in + RREs, @c { was always an ordinary character. Such sequences should be rare, + and will often result in an error because following characters will not + look like a valid bound. +@li In AREs, @c @\ remains a special character within @c [], so a literal @c @\ + within @c [] must be written as @\@\. @\@\ also gives a + literal @c @\ within @c [] in RREs, but only truly paranoid programmers + routinely doubled the backslash. +@li AREs report the longest/shortest match for the RE, rather than the first + found in a specified search order. This may affect some RREs which were + written in the expectation that the first match would be reported. The + careful crafting of RREs to optimize the search order for fast matching is + obsolete (AREs examine all possible matches in parallel, and their + performance is largely insensitive to their complexity) but cases where the + search order was exploited to deliberately find a match which was @e not + the longest/shortest will need rewriting. + + +@section overview_resyntax_bre Basic Regular Expressions + +BREs differ from EREs in several respects. @c |, @c +, and @c ? are ordinary +characters and there is no equivalent for their functionality. The delimiters +for bounds are @c @\{ and @c @\}, with @c { and @c } by themselves ordinary +characters. The parentheses for nested subexpressions are @c @\( and @c @\), +with @c ( and @c ) by themselves ordinary characters. @c ^ is an ordinary +character except at the beginning of the RE or the beginning of a parenthesized +subexpression, @c $ is an ordinary character except at the end of the RE or the +end of a parenthesized subexpression, and @c * is an ordinary character if it +appears at the beginning of the RE or the beginning of a parenthesized +subexpression (after a possible leading ^). Finally, single-digit back +references are available, and @c @\@< and @c @\@> are synonyms for +[[:@<:]] and [[:@>:]] respectively; no other escapes are +available. + + +@section overview_resyntax_characters Regular Expression Character Names + +Note that the character names are case sensitive. + +
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+@beginTable +@row2col{ NUL , @\0 } +@row2col{ SOH , @\001 } +@row2col{ STX , @\002 } +@row2col{ ETX , @\003 } +@row2col{ EOT , @\004 } +@row2col{ ENQ , @\005 } +@row2col{ ACK , @\006 } +@row2col{ BEL , @\007 } +@row2col{ alert , @\007 } +@row2col{ BS , @\010 } +@row2col{ backspace , @\b } +@row2col{ HT , @\011 } +@row2col{ tab , @\t } +@row2col{ LF , @\012 } +@row2col{ newline , @\n } +@row2col{ VT , @\013 } +@row2col{ vertical-tab , @\v } +@row2col{ FF , @\014 } +@row2col{ form-feed , @\f } +@endTable + +@beginTable +@row2col{ CR , @\015 } +@row2col{ carriage-return , @\r } +@row2col{ SO , @\016 } +@row2col{ SI , @\017 } +@row2col{ DLE , @\020 } +@row2col{ DC1 , @\021 } +@row2col{ DC2 , @\022 } +@row2col{ DC3 , @\023 } +@row2col{ DC4 , @\024 } +@row2col{ NAK , @\025 } +@row2col{ SYN , @\026 } +@row2col{ ETB , @\027 } +@row2col{ CAN , @\030 } +@row2col{ EM , @\031 } +@row2col{ SUB , @\032 } +@row2col{ ESC , @\033 } +@row2col{ IS4 , @\034 } +@row2col{ FS , @\034 } +@row2col{ IS3 , @\035 } +@endTable + +@beginTable +@row2col{ GS , @\035 } +@row2col{ IS2 , @\036 } +@row2col{ RS , @\036 } +@row2col{ IS1 , @\037 } +@row2col{ US , @\037 } +@row2col{ space , " " (space) } +@row2col{ exclamation-mark , ! } +@row2col{ quotation-mark , " } +@row2col{ number-sign , @# } +@row2col{ dollar-sign , @$ } +@row2col{ percent-sign , @% } +@row2col{ ampersand , @& } +@row2col{ apostrophe , ' } +@row2col{ left-parenthesis , ( } +@row2col{ right-parenthesis , ) } +@row2col{ asterisk , * } +@row2col{ plus-sign , + } +@row2col{ comma , \, } +@row2col{ hyphen , - } +@endTable + +@beginTable +@row2col{ hyphen-minus , - } +@row2col{ period , . } +@row2col{ full-stop , . } +@row2col{ slash , / } +@row2col{ solidus , / } +@row2col{ zero , 0 } +@row2col{ one , 1 } +@row2col{ two , 2 } +@row2col{ three , 3 } +@row2col{ four , 4 } +@row2col{ five , 5 } +@row2col{ six , 6 } +@row2col{ seven , 7 } +@row2col{ eight , 8 } +@row2col{ nine , 9 } +@row2col{ colon , : } +@row2col{ semicolon , ; } +@row2col{ less-than-sign , @< } +@row2col{ equals-sign , = } +@endTable + +@beginTable +@row2col{ greater-than-sign , @> } +@row2col{ question-mark , ? } +@row2col{ commercial-at , @@ } +@row2col{ left-square-bracket , [ } +@row2col{ backslash , @\ } +@row2col{ reverse-solidus , @\ } +@row2col{ right-square-bracket , ] } +@row2col{ circumflex , ^ } +@row2col{ circumflex-accent , ^ } +@row2col{ underscore , _ } +@row2col{ low-line , _ } +@row2col{ grave-accent , ' } +@row2col{ left-brace , @leftCurly } +@row2col{ left-curly-bracket , @leftCurly } +@row2col{ vertical-line , | } +@row2col{ right-brace , @rightCurly } +@row2col{ right-curly-bracket , @rightCurly } +@row2col{ tilde , ~ } +@row2col{ DEL , @\177 } +@endTable +
+ +*/