Introduction to the VBS regular expression

These pages contain information that is intended to provide a general introduction to regular expressions.

Although attempts to make the content of each topic more independent, most of the information contained in these topics relies on an understanding of the features or concepts described earlier. Therefore, it is recommended that you carefully read these topics in order to get a complete picture of them.

The introduction to regular expressions includes the following topics:

Regular expressions

Early origins

Using regular expressions

Regular expression syntax

Establish regular expressions

Priority order

Ordinary characters

Special characters

Non-printable characters

Character matching

Qualifier

Locator character

Selection and Grouping

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