Is found, where 'first' is defined to mean 'begins earliest in the string'. The search for a matching sequence starts at the beginning of a string and stops when the first sequence matching the expression Required, the user can specify equivalence classes containing all variations of the desired graphic symbol. This means that if a character set contains two or more encodings for a graphic symbol, or if the strings searched contain textĮncoded in more than one codeset, no attempt is made to search for any other representation of the encoded symbol. Matching shall be based on the bit pattern used for encoding the character, not on the graphic representation of the character. To a sequence of characters defined by the pattern. matchedĪ sequence of zero or more characters shall be said to be matched by a BRE or ERE when the characters in the sequence correspond The concatenated set of one or more BREs or EREs that make up the pattern specified for string selection. 9.1 Regular Expression Definitionsįor the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: entire regular expression The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1-2017 under regcomp(), regexec(), and related functions. Both BREs and EREs are supported by the Regular Expression Matching interface in The specific utilities using regular expressions. Some utilities, instead, support the Extended Regular Expressions (ERE)ĭescribed in Extended Regular Expressions any exceptions for both cases are noted in the descriptions of The Basic Regular Expression (BRE) notation and construction rules in Basic Regular Expressions shallĪpply to most utilities supporting regular expressions. Interpreted differently depending on the current locale, many features, such as character class expressions, provide for contextual Orderings, where these character sets are interpreted according to the current locale.

Regular expressions are a context-independent syntax that can represent a wide variety of character sets and character set Regular Expressions (REs) provide a mechanism to select specific strings from a set of character strings. The Open Group Base Specifications Isedition

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