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A regular expression (shortened as regex or regexp), [1] sometimes referred to as rational expression, [2] [3] is a sequence of characters that specifies a match pattern in text. Usually such patterns are used by string-searching algorithms for "find" or "find and replace" operations on strings, or for input validation.
Preceding any other character with a backslash is harmless. For example, insource:/yes\.\no/ will search for pages containing the literal string "yes.no" (case-sensitive). Regex experts should note that \n does not mean "newline," \d does not mean "digit," and so on: In MediaWiki syntax, the only use of \ is to escape metacharacters.
A regular expression or regex is a sequence of characters that define a pattern to be searched for in a text. Each occurrence of the pattern may then be automatically replaced with another string, which may include parts of the identified pattern. AutoWikiBrowser uses the .NET flavor of regex. [1]
Regular expressions (or regex) are a common and very versatile programming technique for manipulating strings. On Wikipedia you can use a limited version of regex called a Lua pattern to select and modify bits of text from a string. The pattern is a piece of code describing what you are looking for in the string.
Regex – If checked indicates that the find and replace expression is a regular expression. Multiline – If checked, this indicates to AWB that the regex characters "^" and "$" ought to match at the beginning and the end of lines respectively, not just the beginning and end of the entire page.
Preceding any other character with a backslash is harmless. For example, insource:/yes\.\no/ will search for pages containing the literal string "yes.no" (case-sensitive). Regex experts should note that \n does not mean "newline," \d does not mean "digit," and so on: In MediaWiki syntax, the only use of \ is to escape metacharacters.
Regex searches are likely to time out unless you further limit the search in some way, such as by including another parameter or a search term outside of the insource component of the search string. (For example, X* intitle:/X/ to restrict the search to initial position.) For more details, see mw:Help:CirrusSearch#Regular expression searches.
strings Text to be searched for. [drive:][path]filename Specifies a file or files to search. Flags: /B Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line. /E Matches pattern if at the end of a line. /L Uses search strings literally. /R Uses search strings as regular expressions. /S Searches for matching files in the current directory and all ...