Patterns are used to determine if some other string, called the 'target', has (or doesn't have) the characteristics specified by the pattern. Regular expressions are strings with the very particular syntax and meaning described in this document and auxiliary documents referred to by this one. It can find things that, while legal, may not be what you intended. New in v5.22, use re 'strict' applies stricter rules than otherwise when compiling regular expression patterns.

For a reference on how they are used, plus various examples of the same, see discussions of m//, s///, qr// and '?' in 'Regexp Quote-Like Operators' in perlop. If you know just a little about them, a quick-start introduction is available in perlrequick.Įxcept for 'The Basics' section, this page assumes you are familiar with regular expression basics, like what is a 'pattern', what does it look like, and how it is basically used. If you haven't used regular expressions before, a tutorial introduction is available in perlretut. This page describes the syntax of regular expressions in Perl. Perlre - Perl regular expressions #DESCRIPTION Repeated Patterns Matching a Zero-length Substring.Character Classes and other Special Escapes.Character set modifier behavior prior to Perl 5.14.Which character set modifier is in effect?.

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