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Regular +expressions are a bit too complex to teach in a few lines here, so if you +really want to understand how the regular expressions work, you should +find a tutorial or reference elsewhere. (For example, DevShed has a decent +tutorial at +<a class="url" href="http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/RegExp/">http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/Administration/RegExp/</a>) + +<P> +Here are some examples of possible regular expressions and matching lines: + +<P> +<table border align="center" style="border-collapse: collapse"> + <thead> + <tr class="tableheader"> + <th align="left"><b>Regular expression</b> </th> + <th align="left"><b>Matching lines</b> </th> + </tr> + </thead> + <tbody valign="baseline"> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td align="left">Keywords: zuff</td> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td align="left">Keywords: ZUFF</td> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td align="left">Keywords: Zuff</td> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td align="left">Keywords: amaryllis, zuff, applesauce</td> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td align="left">Subject: [zuff] Do you have the right stuff for zuff?</td> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td align="left">Subject: Do you have the right stuff for zuff?</td> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td align="left">Subject: What is zuff?</td> + + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">\[zuff\]</td> + <td align="left">Keywords: [zuff]</td> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">\[zuff\]</td> + <td align="left">Subject: [zuff] Do you have the right stuff?</td> + <tr><td align="left" valign="baseline">\[zuff\]</td> + <td align="left">Subject: Online zuff tutorials (was Re: [zuff] What is zuff?)</td></tbody> +</table> + +<P> +A few notes: + +<UL> +<LI>The matching is case-insensitive, so if zuff matches, so will ZUFF, + zuFF, and any other variations in capitalization. +</LI> +<LI>Some characters have special meaning in a regular expression, so + to match those characters specifically, they must be ``escaped'' with a + backslash (\). As you can see in the above example, + [ and ] are such characters. 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