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08. Metacharacters - The Character Class

  • By using character classes, we can already start to write some regular expressions that are more interesting and more powerful than we could when we only knew about literal characters.
  • For example, let's extend the regular expression that we had before:
      [ea]
            
    by adding some more detail:
      gr[ea]y
            
  • We now have a very useful regex, that can match either the word "grey" or the word "gray"!
  • This would be ideal for finding words that someone may have spelt differently throughout a document.

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Andrew Hill

For LinuxSA Meeting, 21 November 2000