NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) System Management Guide

Appendix E Regular Expressions
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This appendix supplements the discussion on regular expressions in Section 6,
“Managing Access to External Utilities and Applications.” It describes in more detail
the regular expression characters that are allowed in the Matching this pattern field on
Page 1 of the UMS : Utility Details panel.
Regular Expression
Characters
Table E-1 summarizes regular expression characters in the order in which they appear
in the following discussion of regular expression syntax.
Table E-1. Regular Expression Characters
Character Meaning
^ Is the beginning of line anchor operator.
[ ] Specifies a character class.
[^ ] Specifies the inversion of the character class.
[ - ] Specifies a range of characters in the character class.
\ Is the metacharacter that overrides the meaning of the following regular
expression character.
\0 Begins an octal number.
\1 through \9 Begins a decimal number.
\x or \X Begins a hexadecimal number.
\b Represents a backspace.
\f Represents a form feed.
\n Represents a newline character.
\r Represents a carriage return.
\s Represents a space.
\t Represents a tab.
. Matches a single character in a specific position.
( ) Specifies a group of terms.
( | ) Specifies a group of mutually exclusive terms.
? Is the closure operator that matches one or zero of the preceding characters.
* Is the closure operator that matches zero or more of the preceding characters.
+ Is the closure operator that matches one or more of the preceding characters.
{ min [ , [ max ] ] } Is the closure operator that specifies a minimum and maximum number of
characters.
$ Is the end of line anchor operator.