H3C Technologies H3C SecPath F1000-E User Manual

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Character Meaning Remarks

*

Matches the preceding character or
character group zero or multiple
times.

For example, "zo*" matches "z" and "zoo";
"(zo)*" matches "zo" and "zozo".

+

Matches the preceding character or
character group one or multiple

times

For example, "zo+" matches "zo" and "zoo", but
not "z".

|

Matches the preceding or
succeeding character string

For example, "def|int" only matches a character
string containing "def" or "int".

_

If it is at the beginning or the end of a
regular expression, it equals ^ or $.

In other cases, it equals comma,

space, round bracket, or curly
bracket.

For example, "a_b" matches "a b" or "a(b"; "_ab"
only matches a line starting with "ab"; "ab_" only

matches a line ending with "ab".

-

It connects two values (the smaller
one before it and the bigger one

after it) to indicate a range together

with [ ].

For example, "1-9" means 1 to 9 (inclusive); "a-h"
means a to h (inclusive).

[ ]

Matches a single character
contained within the brackets.

For example, [16A] matches a string containing
any character among 1, 6, and A; [1-36A] matches
a string containing any character among 1, 2, 3, 6,

and A (- is a hyphen).
"]" can be matched as a common character only

when it is put at the beginning of characters within
the brackets, for example [ ]string]. There is no such

limit on "[".

( )

A character group. It is usually used
with "+" or "*".

For example, (123A) means a character group
"123A"; "408(12)+" matches 40812 or

408121212. But it does not match 408.

\index

Repeats the character string
specified by the index. A character

string refers to the string within ()
before \. index refers to the

sequence number (starting from 1

from left to right) of the character
group before \. If only one character

group appears before \, index can

only be 1; if n character groups
appear before index, index can be

any integer from 1 to n.

For example, (string)\1 repeats string, and a
matching string must contain stringstring.

(string1)(string2)\2 repeats string2, and a

matching string must contain string1string2string2.
(string1)(string2)\1\2 repeats string1 and string2

respectively, and a matching string must contain

string1string2string1string2.

[^]

Matches a single character not
contained within the brackets.

For example, [^16A] means to match a string
containing any character except 1, 6 or A, and the

matching string can also contain 1, 6 or A, but
cannot contain only these three characters. For

example, [^16A] matches "abc" and "m16", but

not 1, 16, or 16A.

\<string

Matches a character string starting
with string.

For example, "\<do" matches word "domain" and
string "doa".

string\>

Matches a character string ending
with string.

For example, "do\>" matches word "undo" and
string "abcdo".

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