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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> +<div class="center"><table class="realtable"> + <thead> + <tr> + <th class="left" >Regular expression</th> + <th class="left" >Matching lines</th> + </tr> + </thead> + <tbody> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td class="left" >Keywords: zuff</td></tr> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td class="left" >Keywords: ZUFF</td></tr> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td class="left" >Keywords: Zuff</td></tr> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td class="left" >Keywords: amaryllis, zuff, applesauce</td></tr> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td class="left" >Subject: [zuff] Do you have the right stuff for zuff?</td></tr> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td class="left" >Subject: Do you have the right stuff for zuff?</td></tr> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">zuff</td> + <td class="left" >Subject: What is zuff?</td></tr> + + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">\[zuff\]</td> + <td class="left" >Keywords: [zuff]</td></tr> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">\[zuff\]</td> + <td class="left" >Subject: [zuff] Do you have the right stuff?</td></tr> + <tr><td class="left" valign="baseline">\[zuff\]</td> + <td class="left" >Subject: Online zuff tutorials (was Re: [zuff] What is zuff?)</td></tr></tbody> +</table></div> + +<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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