Regular expression syntax (unsupported)

The following page describes some common regular expression syntax/operators not available in EditPlus. Please see Regular expression syntax for supported options and Regular Expressions for examples of regular expressions commonly used in EditPlus. BigTitPatrol Asstraffic Allinternal CreampieSurprise Spermswap MrChewsAsianBeaver AdultFreindFinder GiveMePink FastSize BigMouthfuls TugJobs Asstraffic Allinternal GiveMePink Spermswap

Operators and Synax Not Supported in EditPlus

foo{num} 

match foo exactly num times

foo{min, max} 

match foo at least min and at most max times, both optional

a 

0x07, BEL

\f 

0x0C, formfeed

\r 

0x0D, carriage return, see \n

\e 

0x1B, ESC

\xfoo 

0xfoo, hexadecimal character reference

\cfoo 

control-foo

\s 

whitespace character, use [ \t\n]

\S 

non-whitespace character, use [^ \t\n]

\d 

decimal digit, use [0-9]

\D 

not a decimal digit, use [^0-9]

\w 

word character, letter, for English use [A-z]

\W 

non-word character, non-letter, for English use [^A-z]

[[:alpha:]], [[:lower:]], [[:upper:]], [[:alnum:]], [[:digit:]], [[:xdigit:]], [[:punct:]], [[:graph:]], [[:print:]], [[:blank:]], [[:space:]] 

predefined character classes (POSIX)

\b 

word boundary (assertion)

\B 

not a word boundary (assertion)

\A 

subject start (assertion), use ^

\Z 

subject end (assertion), use [\n$]

\z 

subject end (assertion), use $

assertions other than ^ and $ 

parts of patterns that are not added to matches:

(?=foo) 

positive assertion

(?!foo) 

negative assertion

(?<=foo), (?<!foo) 

look-behind assertion

(?>=foo), (?>!foo) 

look-ahead assertion, once-only sub-pattern

(?(foo)true), (?(foo)true|false) 

conditional sub-pattern, foo being either the number of a sub-pattern or an assertion

(?

foo) : grouping, non-referencable

(?ifoo), (?mfoo), (?sfoo), (?xfoo) 

inline modifiers

(?R) 

recursive pattern

(?#foo) 

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