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.TH PCRESYNTAX 3	.TH PCRESYNTAX 3 "12 November 2013" "PCRE 8.34"
.SH NAME	.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions	PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH "PCRE REGULAR EXPRESSION SYNTAX SUMMARY"	.SH "PCRE REGULAR EXPRESSION SYNTAX SUMMARY"
Line 25 documentation. This document contains a quick-referenc	Line 25 documentation. This document contains a quick-referenc
\ea alarm, that is, the BEL character (hex 07)	\ea alarm, that is, the BEL character (hex 07)
\ecx "control-x", where x is any ASCII character	\ecx "control-x", where x is any ASCII character
\ee escape (hex 1B)	\ee escape (hex 1B)
\ef formfeed (hex 0C)	\ef form feed (hex 0C)
\en newline (hex 0A)	\en newline (hex 0A)
\er carriage return (hex 0D)	\er carriage return (hex 0D)
\et tab (hex 09)	\et tab (hex 09)
	\e0dd character with octal code 0dd
\eddd character with octal code ddd, or backreference	\eddd character with octal code ddd, or backreference
	\eo{ddd..} character with octal code ddd..
\exhh character with hex code hh	\exhh character with hex code hh
\ex{hhh..} character with hex code hhh..	\ex{hhh..} character with hex code hhh..
	.sp
	Note that \e0dd is always an octal code, and that \e8 and \e9 are the literal
	characters "8" and "9".
.	.
.	.
.SH "CHARACTER TYPES"	.SH "CHARACTER TYPES"
Line 42 documentation. This document contains a quick-referenc	Line 47 documentation. This document contains a quick-referenc
\eC one data unit, even in UTF mode (best avoided)	\eC one data unit, even in UTF mode (best avoided)
\ed a decimal digit	\ed a decimal digit
\eD a character that is not a decimal digit	\eD a character that is not a decimal digit
\eh a horizontal whitespace character	\eh a horizontal white space character
\eH a character that is not a horizontal whitespace character	\eH a character that is not a horizontal white space character
\eN a character that is not a newline	\eN a character that is not a newline
\ep{\fIxx\fP} a character with the \fIxx\fP property	\ep{\fIxx\fP} a character with the \fIxx\fP property
\eP{\fIxx\fP} a character without the \fIxx\fP property	\eP{\fIxx\fP} a character without the \fIxx\fP property
\eR a newline sequence	\eR a newline sequence
\es a whitespace character	\es a white space character
\eS a character that is not a whitespace character	\eS a character that is not a white space character
\ev a vertical whitespace character	\ev a vertical white space character
\eV a character that is not a vertical whitespace character	\eV a character that is not a vertical white space character
\ew a "word" character	\ew a "word" character
\eW a "non-word" character	\eW a "non-word" character
\eX an extended Unicode sequence	\eX a Unicode extended grapheme cluster
.sp	.sp
In PCRE, by default, \ed, \eD, \es, \eS, \ew, and \eW recognize only ASCII	By default, \ed, \es, and \ew match only ASCII characters, even in UTF-8 mode
characters, even in a UTF mode. However, this can be changed by setting the	or in the 16- bit and 32-bit libraries. However, if locale-specific matching is
PCRE_UCP option.	happening, \es and \ew may also match characters with code points in the range
	128-255. If the PCRE_UCP option is set, the behaviour of these escape sequences
	is changed to use Unicode properties and they match many more characters.
.	.
.	.
.SH "GENERAL CATEGORY PROPERTIES FOR \ep and \eP"	.SH "GENERAL CATEGORY PROPERTIES FOR \ep and \eP"
Line 115 PCRE_UCP option.	Line 122 PCRE_UCP option.
.sp	.sp
Xan Alphanumeric: union of properties L and N	Xan Alphanumeric: union of properties L and N
Xps POSIX space: property Z or tab, NL, VT, FF, CR	Xps POSIX space: property Z or tab, NL, VT, FF, CR
Xsp Perl space: property Z or tab, NL, FF, CR	Xsp Perl space: property Z or tab, NL, VT, FF, CR
	Xuc Univerally-named character: one that can be
	represented by a Universal Character Name
Xwd Perl word: property Xan or underscore	Xwd Perl word: property Xan or underscore
	.sp
	Perl and POSIX space are now the same. Perl added VT to its space character set
	at release 5.18 and PCRE changed at release 8.34.
.	.
.	.
.SH "SCRIPT NAMES FOR \ep AND \eP"	.SH "SCRIPT NAMES FOR \ep AND \eP"
Line 127 Armenian,	Line 139 Armenian,
Avestan,	Avestan,
Balinese,	Balinese,
Bamum,	Bamum,
	Batak,
Bengali,	Bengali,
Bopomofo,	Bopomofo,
	Brahmi,
Braille,	Braille,
Buginese,	Buginese,
Buhid,	Buhid,
Canadian_Aboriginal,	Canadian_Aboriginal,
Carian,	Carian,
	Chakma,
Cham,	Cham,
Cherokee,	Cherokee,
Common,	Common,
Line 176 Lisu,	Line 191 Lisu,
Lycian,	Lycian,
Lydian,	Lydian,
Malayalam,	Malayalam,
	Mandaic,
Meetei_Mayek,	Meetei_Mayek,
	Meroitic_Cursive,
	Meroitic_Hieroglyphs,
	Miao,
Mongolian,	Mongolian,
Myanmar,	Myanmar,
New_Tai_Lue,	New_Tai_Lue,
Line 195 Rejang,	Line 214 Rejang,
Runic,	Runic,
Samaritan,	Samaritan,
Saurashtra,	Saurashtra,
	Sharada,
Shavian,	Shavian,
Sinhala,	Sinhala,
	Sora_Sompeng,
Sundanese,	Sundanese,
Syloti_Nagri,	Syloti_Nagri,
Syriac,	Syriac,
Line 205 Tagbanwa,	Line 226 Tagbanwa,
Tai_Le,	Tai_Le,
Tai_Tham,	Tai_Tham,
Tai_Viet,	Tai_Viet,
	Takri,
Tamil,	Tamil,
Telugu,	Telugu,
Thaana,	Thaana,
Line 235 Yi.	Line 257 Yi.
lower lower case letter	lower lower case letter
print printing, including space	print printing, including space
punct printing, excluding alphanumeric	punct printing, excluding alphanumeric
space whitespace	space white space
upper upper case letter	upper upper case letter
word same as \ew	word same as \ew
xdigit hexadecimal digit	xdigit hexadecimal digit
Line 335 but some of them use Unicode properties if PCRE_UCP is	Line 357 but some of them use Unicode properties if PCRE_UCP is
The following are recognized only at the start of a pattern or after one of the	The following are recognized only at the start of a pattern or after one of the
newline-setting options with similar syntax:	newline-setting options with similar syntax:
.sp	.sp
	(*LIMIT_MATCH=d) set the match limit to d (decimal number)
	(*LIMIT_RECURSION=d) set the recursion limit to d (decimal number)
(*NO_START_OPT) no start-match optimization (PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE)	(*NO_START_OPT) no start-match optimization (PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE)
(*UTF8) set UTF-8 mode: 8-bit library (PCRE_UTF8)	(*UTF8) set UTF-8 mode: 8-bit library (PCRE_UTF8)
(*UTF16) set UTF-16 mode: 16-bit library (PCRE_UTF16)	(*UTF16) set UTF-16 mode: 16-bit library (PCRE_UTF16)
	(*UTF32) set UTF-32 mode: 32-bit library (PCRE_UTF32)
	(*UTF) set appropriate UTF mode for the library in use
(*UCP) set PCRE_UCP (use Unicode properties for \ed etc)	(*UCP) set PCRE_UCP (use Unicode properties for \ed etc)
	.sp
	Note that LIMIT_MATCH and LIMIT_RECURSION can only reduce the value of the
	limits set by the caller of pcre_exec(), not increase them.
.	.
.	.
.SH "LOOKAHEAD AND LOOKBEHIND ASSERTIONS"	.SH "LOOKAHEAD AND LOOKBEHIND ASSERTIONS"
Line 432 pattern is not anchored.	Line 461 pattern is not anchored.
.rs	.rs
.sp	.sp
These are recognized only at the very start of the pattern or after a	These are recognized only at the very start of the pattern or after a
(BSR_...), (UTF8), (UTF16) or (UCP) option.	(BSR_...), (UTF8), (UTF16), (UTF32) or (*UCP) option.
.sp	.sp
(*CR) carriage return only	(*CR) carriage return only
(*LF) linefeed only	(*LF) linefeed only
Line 479 Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.	Line 508 Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
.rs	.rs
.sp	.sp
.nf	.nf
Last updated: 10 January 2012	Last updated: 12 November 2013
Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.	Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
.fi	.fi

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