vbscript中正则表达式相对perl的不同

source:  http://www.regular-expressions.info/vbscript.html

 

VBScript's Regular Expression Support
VBScript has built-in support for regular expressions. If you use VBScript to validate user input on a web page at the client side, using VBScript's regular expression support will greatly reduce the amount of code you need to write.

Microsoft made some significant enhancements to VBScript's regular expression support in version 5.5 of Internet Explorer. Version 5.5 implements quite a few essential regex features that were missing in previous versions of VBScript. Internet Explorer 6.0 does not expand the regular expression functionality. Whenever this website mentions VBScript, the statements refer to VBScript's version 5.5 regular expression support.

In fact, the regular expression flavor used in the version 5.5 VBScript object is the same one used by JavaScript and JScript. The regex flavor is part of the ECMA-262 standard for JavaScript. Therefore, everything said about JavaScript's regular expression flavor on this website also applies to VBScript. The only exception is the character escape support for /xFF and /uFFFF in the replacement text. JavaScript supports these in string literals, but VBScript does not.

JavaScript and VBScript implement Perl-style regular expressions. However, they lack quite a number of advanced features available in Perl and other modern regular expression flavors:

No /A or /Z anchors to match the start or end of the string. Use a caret or dollar instead.
Lookbehind is not supported at all. Lookahead is fully supported.
No atomic grouping or possessive quantifiers
No Unicode support, except for matching single characters with /uFFFF
No named capturing groups. Use numbered capturing groups instead.
No mode modifiers to set matching options within the regular expression.
No conditionals.
No regular expression comments. Describe your regular expression with VBScript apostrophe comments instead, outside the regular expression string.
Version 1.0 of the RegExp object even lacks basic features like lazy quantifiers. This is the main reason this website does not discuss VBScript RegExp 1.0. All versions of Internet Explorer prior to 5.5 include version 1.0 of the RegExp object. There are no other versions than 1.0 and 5.5.