H3C Technologies H3C SecBlade NetStream Cards User Manual

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Character Meaning Remarks

_

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 these three characters only. 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”.

\bcharacter2

Matches character1character2.
character1
can be any character

except number, letter or underline,

and \b equals [^A-Za-z0-9_].

For example, “\ba” matches “-a” with “-“ being
character1,
and “a” being character2, but it does
not match “2a” or “ba”.

\Bcharacter

Matches a string containing
character, and no space is allowed

before character.

For example, “\Bt” matches “t” in “install”, but not
“t” in “big top”.

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