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    This document is a tutorial that introduces regular expressions. It begins with an overview of what regular expressions are and which tools use them. It then covers the basics of matching patterns in text, including character literals, special characters, character classes, and quantifiers. Later sections discuss more advanced topics such as backreferences, non-greedy quantifiers, lookahead assertions, and modifiers. The goal is to help readers learn how to use regular expressions to match and manipulate text.

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    This document is a tutorial that introduces regular expressions. It begins with an overview of what regular expressions are and which tools use them. It then covers the basics of matching patterns in text, including character literals, special characters, character classes, and quantifiers. Later sections discuss more advanced topics such as backreferences, non-greedy quantifiers, lookahead assertions, and modifiers. The goal is to help readers learn how to use regular expressions to match and manipulate text.

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    Who is this tutorial for?

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    Just what is a regular expression anyway?

    What tools use regular expressions?

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    Note on presentation

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    Where to go from here...

    Matching Patterns in Text: The Basics

    Character literals

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    "Escaped" characters literals

    Positional special characters

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    The "wildcard" character

    Grouping regular expressions

    Character classes

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    Complement operator

    Alternation of patterns

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    The basic abstract quantifier

    Matching Patterns in Text: Intermediate

    More abstract quantifiers

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    Numeric quantifiers

    Backreferences

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    Don't match more than you want to

    Tricks for restraining matches

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    Comments on modification tools

    A note on modification examples

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    A literal-string modification example

    A pattern-match modification example

    Modification using backreferences

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    Another warning on mismatching

    Advanced Regular Expression


    Extensions

    About advanced features

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    Non-greedy quantifiers

    Pattern-match modifiers

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    Changing backreference behavior

    Naming backreferences

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    Lookahead assertions

    Making regular expressions more readable

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    MSIE sucks

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