正则表达式 meta character

 

The metacharacter in regular expression:(自己总结的，可能不全)

 

Metacharacter	Description
?	(1)The preceding item is optional and will be matched, at most, once.
+	The preceding item will be matched one or more times.
*	The preceding item will be matched zero or more times.
(	make subexpressions or to put boundaries on parts of expressions
)
.	Matches any single character
|	logical OR(也就是正则表达式中的或操作)
^	(1)represents the characters not in the range of a list. (2)the start of input text
/	escape character(转义符)
[	define your own character classes  using the notation [...].
]
{	define the Range Interval for matching
}
$	the end of text
&&	logical AND

 

Note: (节选自网页：)

   Operator    Effect
   .    Matches any single character.
   ?    The preceding item is optional and will be matched, at most, once.
   *    The preceding item will be matched zero or more times.
   +    The preceding item will be matched one or more times.
   {N}    The preceding item is matched exactly N times.
   {N,}    The preceding item is matched N or more times.
   {N,M}    The preceding item is matched at least N times, but not more than M times.
   -    represents the range if it's not first or last in a list or the ending point of a range in a list.
   ^    Matches the empty string at the beginning of a line; also represents the characters not in the range of a list.
   $    Matches the empty string at the end of a line.
   /b    Matches the empty string at the edge of a word.
   /B   Matches the empty string provided it's not at the edge of a word.
   /<   Match the empty string at the beginning of word.
   />    Match the empty string at the end of word.

 

Two regular expressions may be concatenated; the resulting regular expression matches any string formed by concatenating two substrings that respectively match the concatenated subexpressions.

 

Two regular expressions may be joined by the infix operator "|" ; the resulting regular expression matches any string matching either subexpression.

 

Repetition takes precedence over concatenation, which in turn takes precedence over alternation. A whole subexpression may be enclosed in parentheses to override these precedence rules.