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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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