-
parts of the
pattern to
match an atom will
require using ( ) as
metacharacters.
Metacharacters help form: atoms;
quantifiers telling how many
atoms (and whether...
- (regex) engine. In
POSIX extended regular expressions,
there are 14
metacharacters that must be
escaped —
preceded by a
backslash (\) — in
order to drop...
- in a
character sequence. An
escape character is a
particular case of
metacharacters. Generally, the
judgement of
whether something is an
escape character...
-
languages used it the same way,
changing subsequent literal characters into
metacharacters and vice versa. For
instance \||b
searches for
either '|' or 'b', the...
-
string literal. Many
languages support the use of
metacharacters inside string literals.
Metacharacters have
varying interpretations depending on the context...
- any "close punctuation" such as [abc].
Matching of
certain "normal"
metacharacters can be
driven by
Unicode properties when the
compile option PCRE2_UCP...
-
getopt had
several problems: it
could not
handle whitespace or s****
metacharacters in arguments, and
there was no
ability to
disable the
output of error...
- that, and so
there is no
single convention for
quoting or
escaping metacharacters on
Windows command lines. For some commands,
spaces are
treated as delimiters...
- any
character sequence ("string"), not just to
directory entries. "
Metacharacters" (also
called "Wildcards"): ? (not in brackets)
matches any character...
-
either "Text" or "Code" fields. Some Unix s**** use the
ampersand as a
metacharacter: Some Unix s****, like the
POSIX standard sh s****, use an ampersand...
