Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF

原文：http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234

Core Rules

Certain basic rules are in uppercase, such as SP,HTAB, CRLF, DIGIT,

ALPHA, etc.

ALPHA = %x41-5A / %x61-7A ; A-Z / a-z

BIT = "0" / "1"

CHAR =%x01-7F

; any 7-bitUS-ASCII character,

; excluding NUL

CR =%x0D

; carriagereturn

CRLF = CR LF

; Internet standardnewline

CTL = %x00-1F / %x7F

; controls

DIGIT = %x30-39

; 0-9

DQUOTE = %x22

; " (Double Quote)

HEXDIG = DIGIT / "A" / "B" /"C" / "D" / "E" / "F"

HTAB = %x09

; horizontaltab

LF =%x0A

; linefeed

LWSP = *(WSP / CRLF WSP)

; Use of thislinear-white-space rule

; permits lines containing only white

; space that are no longer legal in

; mail headers and have caused

; interoperability problems in other

; contexts.

; Do not usewhen defining mail

; headers and use with caution in

; other contexts.

OCTET = %x00-FF

; 8 bits ofdata

SP =%x20

VCHAR =%x21-7E

; visible(printing) characters

WSP = SP / HTAB

; white space