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-<appendix id="regular-expressions">
-
-<title>Regular Expressions</title>
-
-<synopsis> This Appendix contains a brief but hopefully sufficient and
-covering introduction to the world of <emphasis>regular
-expressions</emphasis>. It documents regular expressions in the form
-available within &kate;, which is not compatible with the regular
-expressions of perl, nor with those of for example
-<command>grep</command>.</synopsis>
-
-<sect1>
-
-<title>Introduction</title>
-
-<para><emphasis>Regular Expressions</emphasis> provides us with a way
-to describe some possible contents of a text string in a way
-understood by a small piece of software, so that it can investigate if
-a text matches, and also in the case of advanced applications with the
-means of saving pieces or the matching text.</para>
-
-<para>An example: Say you want to search a text for paragraphs that
-starts with either of the names <quote>Henrik</quote> or
-<quote>Pernille</quote> followed by some form of the verb
-<quote>say</quote>.</para>
-
-<para>With a normal search, you would start out searching for the
-first name, <quote>Henrik</quote> maybe followed by <quote>sa</quote>
-like this: <userinput>Henrik sa</userinput>, and while looking for
-matches, you would have to discard those not being the beginning of a
-paragraph, as well as those in which the word starting with the
-letters <quote>sa</quote> was not either <quote>says</quote>,
-<quote>said</quote> or so. And then of cause repeat all of that with
-the next name...</para>
-
-<para>With Regular Expressions, that task could be accomplished with a
-single search, and with a larger degree of preciseness.</para>
-
-<para>To achieve this, Regular Expressions defines rules for
-expressing in details a generalization of a string to match. Our
-example, which we might literally express like this: <quote>A line
-starting with either <quote>Henrik</quote> or <quote>Pernille</quote>
-(possibly following up to 4 blanks or tab characters) followed by a
-whitespace followed by <quote>sa</quote> and then either
-<quote>ys</quote> or <quote>id</quote></quote> could be expressed with
-the following regular expression:</para> <para><userinput>^[
-\t]{0,4}(Henrik|Pernille) sa(ys|id)</userinput></para>
-
-<para>The above example demonstrates all four major concepts of modern
-Regular Expressions, namely:</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem><para>Patterns</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>Assertions</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>Quantifiers</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>Back references</para></listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-
-<para>The caret (<literal>^</literal>) starting the expression is an
-assertion, being true only if the following matching string is at the
-start of a line.</para>
-
-<para>The stings <literal>[ \t]</literal> and
-<literal>(Henrik|Pernille) sa(ys|id)</literal> are patterns. The first
-one is a <emphasis>character class</emphasis> that matches either a
-blank or a (horizontal) tab character; the other pattern contains
-first a subpattern matching either <literal>Henrik</literal>
-<emphasis>or</emphasis> <literal>Pernille</literal>, then a piece
-matching the exact string <literal> sa</literal> and finally a
-subpattern matching either <literal>ys</literal>
-<emphasis>or</emphasis> <literal>id</literal></para>
-
-<para>The string <literal>{0,4}</literal> is a quantifier saying
-<quote>anywhere from 0 up to 4 of the previous</quote>.</para>
-
-<para>Because regular expression software supporting the concept of
-<emphasis>back references</emphasis> saves the entire matching part of
-the string as well as sub-patterns enclosed in parentheses, given some
-means of access to those references, we could get our hands on either
-the whole match (when searching a text document in an editor with a
-regular expression, that is often marked as selected) or either the
-name found, or the last part of the verb.</para>
-
-<para>All together, the expression will match where we wanted it to,
-and only there.</para>
-
-<para>The following sections will describe in details how to construct
-and use patterns, character classes, assertions, quantifiers and
-back references, and the final section will give a few useful
-examples.</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="regex-patterns">
-
-<title>Patterns</title>
-
-<para>Patterns consists of literal strings and character
-classes. Patterns may contain sub-patterns, which are patterns enclosed
-in parentheses.</para>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>Escaping characters</title>
-
-<para>In patterns as well as in character classes, some characters
-have a special meaning. To literally match any of those characters,
-they must be marked or <emphasis>escaped</emphasis> to let the regular
-expression software know that it should interpret such characters in
-their literal meaning.</para>
-
-<para>This is done by prepending the character with a backslash
-(<literal>\</literal>).</para>
-
-
-<para>The regular expression software will silently ignore escaping a
-character that does not have any special meaning in the context, so
-escaping for example a <quote>j</quote> (<userinput>\j</userinput>) is
-safe. If you are in doubt whether a character could have a special
-meaning, you can therefore escape it safely.</para>
-
-<para>Escaping of cause includes the backslash character it self, to
-literally match a such, you would write
-<userinput>\\</userinput>.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>Character Classes and abbreviations</title>
-
-<para>A <emphasis>character class</emphasis> is an expression that
-matches one of a defined set of characters. In Regular Expressions,
-character classes are defined by putting the legal characters for the
-class in square brackets, <literal>[]</literal>, or by using one of
-the abbreviated classes described below.</para>
-
-<para>Simple character classes just contains one or more literal
-characters, for example <userinput>[abc]</userinput> (matching either
-of the letters <quote>a</quote>, <quote>b</quote> or <quote>c</quote>)
-or <userinput>[0123456789]</userinput> (matching any digit).</para>
-
-<para>Because letters and digits have a logical order, you can
-abbreviate those by specifying ranges of them:
-<userinput>[a-c]</userinput> is equal to <userinput>[abc]</userinput>
-and <userinput>[0-9]</userinput> is equal to
-<userinput>[0123456789]</userinput>. Combining these constructs, for
-example <userinput>[a-fynot1-38]</userinput> is completely legal (the
-last one would match, of cause, either of
-<quote>a</quote>,<quote>b</quote>,<quote>c</quote>,<quote>d</quote>,
-<quote>e</quote>,<quote>f</quote>,<quote>y</quote>,<quote>n</quote>,<quote>o</quote>,<quote>t</quote>,
-<quote>1</quote>,<quote>2</quote>,<quote>3</quote> or
-<quote>8</quote>).</para>
-
-<para>As capital letters are different characters from their
-non-capital equivalents, to create a caseless character class matching
-<quote>a</quote> or <quote>b</quote>, in any case, you need to write it
-<userinput>[aAbB]</userinput>.</para>
-
-<para>It is of cause possible to create a <quote>negative</quote>
-class matching as <quote>anything but</quote> To do so put a caret
-(<literal>^</literal>) at the beginning of the class: </para>
-
-<para><userinput>[^abc]</userinput> will match any character
-<emphasis>but</emphasis> <quote>a</quote>, <quote>b</quote> or
-<quote>c</quote>.</para>
-
-<para>In addition to literal characters, some abbreviations are
-defined, making life still a bit easier:
-
-<variablelist>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\a</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches the <acronym>ASCII</acronym> bell character (BEL, 0x07).</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\f</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches the <acronym>ASCII</acronym> form feed character (FF, 0x0C).</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\n</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches the <acronym>ASCII</acronym> line feed character (LF, 0x0A, Unix newline).</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\r</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches the <acronym>ASCII</acronym> carriage return character (CR, 0x0D).</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\t</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches the <acronym>ASCII</acronym> horizontal tab character (HT, 0x09).</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\v</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches the <acronym>ASCII</acronym> vertical tab character (VT, 0x0B).</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\xhhhh</userinput></term>
-
-<listitem><para> This matches the Unicode character corresponding to
-the hexadecimal number hhhh (between 0x0000 and 0xFFFF). \0ooo (i.e.,
-\zero ooo) matches the <acronym>ASCII</acronym>/Latin-1 character
-corresponding to the octal number ooo (between 0 and
-0377).</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>.</userinput> (dot)</term>
-<listitem><para> This matches any character (including newline).</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\d</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches a digit. Equal to <literal>[0-9]</literal></para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\D</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches a non-digit. Equal to <literal>[^0-9]</literal> or <literal>[^\d]</literal></para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\s</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches a whitespace character. Practically equal to <literal>[ \t\n\r]</literal></para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\S</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para> This matches a non-whitespace. Practically equal to <literal>[^ \t\r\n]</literal>, and equal to <literal>[^\s]</literal></para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\w</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Matches any <quote>word character</quote> - in this case any letter or digit. Note that
-underscore (<literal>_</literal>) is not matched, as is the case with perl regular expressions.
-Equal to <literal>[a-zA-Z0-9]</literal></para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\W</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Matches any non-word character - anything but letters or numbers.
-Equal to <literal>[^a-zA-Z0-9]</literal> or <literal>[^\w]</literal></para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</para>
-
-<para>The abbreviated classes can be put inside a custom class, for
-example to match a word character, a blank or a dot, you could write
-<userinput>[\w \.]</userinput></para>
-
-<note> <para>The POSIX notation of classes, <userinput>[:&lt;class
-name&gt;:]</userinput> is currently not supported.</para> </note>
-
-<sect3>
-<title>Characters with special meanings inside character classes</title>
-
-<para>The following characters has a special meaning inside the
-<quote>[]</quote> character class construct, and must be escaped to be
-literally included in a class:</para>
-
-<variablelist>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>]</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Ends the character class. Must be escaped unless it is the very first character in the
-class (may follow an unescaped caret)</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>^</userinput> (caret)</term>
-<listitem><para>Denotes a negative class, if it is the first character. Must be escaped to match literally if it is the first character in the class.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>-</userinput> (dash)</term>
-<listitem><para>Denotes a logical range. Must always be escaped within a character class.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\</userinput> (backslash)</term>
-<listitem><para>The escape character. Must always be escaped.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</sect3>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2>
-
-<title>Alternatives: matching <quote>one of</quote></title>
-
-<para>If you want to match one of a set of alternative patterns, you
-can separate those with <literal>|</literal> (vertical bar character).</para>
-
-<para>For example to find either <quote>John</quote> or <quote>Harry</quote> you would use an expression <userinput>John|Harry</userinput>.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2>
-
-<title>Sub Patterns</title>
-
-<para><emphasis>Sub patterns</emphasis> are patterns enclosed in
-parentheses, and they have several uses in the world of regular
-expressions.</para>
-
-<sect3>
-
-<title>Specifying alternatives</title>
-
-<para>You may use a sub pattern to group a set of alternatives within
-a larger pattern. The alternatives are separated by the character
-<quote>|</quote> (vertical bar).</para>
-
-<para>For example to match either of the words <quote>int</quote>,
-<quote>float</quote> or <quote>double</quote>, you could use the
-pattern <userinput>int|float|double</userinput>. If you only want to
-find one if it is followed by some whitespace and then some letters,
-put the alternatives inside a subpattern:
-<userinput>(int|float|double)\s+\w+</userinput>.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3>
-
-<title>Capturing matching text (back references)</title>
-
-<para>If you want to use a back reference, use a sub pattern to have
-the desired part of the pattern remembered.</para>
-
-<para>For example, it you want to find two occurrences of the same
-word separated by a comma and possibly some whitespace, you could
-write <userinput>(\w+),\s*\1</userinput>. The sub pattern
-<literal>\w+</literal> would find a chunk of word characters, and the
-entire expression would match if those were followed by a comma, 0 or
-more whitespace and then an equal chunk of word characters. (The
-string <literal>\1</literal> references <emphasis>the first sub pattern
-enclosed in parentheses</emphasis>)</para>
-
-<para>See also <link linkend="backreferences">Back references</link>.</para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-<sect3 id="lookahead-assertions">
-<title>Lookahead Assertions</title>
-
-<para>A lookahead assertion is a sub pattern, starting with either
-<literal>?=</literal> or <literal>?!</literal>.</para>
-
-<para>For example to match the literal string <quote>Bill</quote> but
-only if not followed by <quote> Gates</quote>, you could use this
-expression: <userinput>Bill(?! Gates)</userinput>. (This would find
-<quote>Bill Clinton</quote> as well as <quote>Billy the kid</quote>,
-but silently ignore the other matches.)</para>
-
-<para>Sub patterns used for assertions are not captured.</para>
-
-<para>See also <link linkend="assertions">Assertions</link></para>
-
-</sect3>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2 id="special-characters-in-patterns">
-<title>Characters with a special meaning inside patterns</title>
-
-<para>The following characters have meaning inside a pattern, and
-must be escaped if you want to literally match them:
-
-<variablelist>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\</userinput> (backslash)</term>
-<listitem><para>The escape character.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>^</userinput> (caret)</term>
-<listitem><para>Asserts the beginning of the string.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>$</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Asserts the end of string.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>()</userinput> (left and right parentheses)</term>
-<listitem><para>Denotes sub patterns.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>{}</userinput> (left and right curly braces)</term>
-<listitem><para>Denotes numeric quantifiers.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>[]</userinput> (left and right square brackets)</term>
-<listitem><para>Denotes character classes.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>|</userinput> (vertical bar)</term>
-<listitem><para>logical OR. Separates alternatives.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>+</userinput> (plus sign)</term>
-<listitem><para>Quantifier, 1 or more.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>*</userinput> (asterisk)</term>
-<listitem><para>Quantifier, 0 or more.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>?</userinput> (question mark)</term>
-<listitem><para>An optional character. Can be interpreted as a quantifier, 0 or 1.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="quantifiers">
-<title>Quantifiers</title>
-
-<para><emphasis>Quantifiers</emphasis> allows a regular expression to
-match a specified number or range of numbers of either a character,
-character class or sub pattern.</para>
-
-<para>Quantifiers are enclosed in curly brackets (<literal>{</literal>
-and <literal>}</literal>) and have the general form
-<literal>{[minimum-occurrences][,[maximum-occurrences]]}</literal>
-</para>
-
-<para>The usage is best explained by example:
-
-<variablelist>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>{1}</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Exactly 1 occurrence</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>{0,1}</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Zero or 1 occurrences</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>{,1}</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>The same, with less work;)</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>{5,10}</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>At least 5 but maximum 10 occurrences.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>{5,}</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>At least 5 occurrences, no maximum.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</para>
-
-<para>Additionally, there are some abbreviations:
-
-<variablelist>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>*</userinput> (asterisk)</term>
-<listitem><para>similar to <literal>{0,}</literal>, find any number of occurrences.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>+</userinput> (plus sign)</term>
-<listitem><para>similar to <literal>{1,}</literal>, at least 1 occurrence.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>?</userinput> (question mark)</term>
-<listitem><para>similar to <literal>{0,1}</literal>, zero or 1 occurrence.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</para>
-
-<sect2>
-
-<title>Greed</title>
-
-<para>When using quantifiers with no maximum, regular expressions
-defaults to match as much of the searched string as possible, commonly
-known as <emphasis>greedy</emphasis> behavior.</para>
-
-<para>Modern regular expression software provides the means of
-<quote>turning off greediness</quote>, though in a graphical
-environment it is up to the interface to provide you with access to
-this feature. For example a search dialog providing a regular
-expression search could have a check box labeled <quote>Minimal
-matching</quote> as well as it ought to indicate if greediness is the
-default behavior.</para>
-
-</sect2>
-
-<sect2>
-<title>In context examples</title>
-
-<para>Here are a few examples of using quantifiers</para>
-
-<variablelist>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>^\d{4,5}\s</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Matches the digits in <quote>1234 go</quote> and <quote>12345 now</quote>, but neither in <quote>567 eleven</quote>
-nor in <quote>223459 somewhere</quote></para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\s+</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Matches one or more whitespace characters</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>(bla){1,}</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Matches all of <quote>blablabla</quote> and the <quote>bla</quote> in <quote>blackbird</quote> or <quote>tabla</quote></para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>/?&gt;</userinput></term>
-<listitem><para>Matches <quote>/&gt;</quote> in <quote>&lt;closeditem/&gt;</quote> as well as
-<quote>&gt;</quote> in <quote>&lt;openitem&gt;</quote>.</para></listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</sect2>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="assertions">
-<title>Assertions</title>
-
-<para><emphasis>Assertions</emphasis> allows a regular expression to
-match only under certain controlled conditions.</para>
-
-<para>An assertion does not need a character to match, it rather
-investigates the surroundings of a possible match before acknowledging
-it. For example the <emphasis>word boundary</emphasis> assertion does
-not try to find a non word character opposite a word one at its
-position, instead it makes sure that there is not a word
-character. This means that the assertion can match where there is no
-character, i.e. at the ends of a searched string.</para>
-
-<para>Some assertions actually does have a pattern to match, but the
-part of the string matching that will not be a part of the result of
-the match of the full expression.</para>
-
-<para>Regular Expressions as documented here supports the following
-assertions:
-
-<variablelist>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>^</userinput> (caret: beginning of
-string)</term>
-<listitem><para>Matches the beginning of the searched
-string.</para> <para>The expression <userinput>^Peter</userinput> will
-match at <quote>Peter</quote> in the string <quote>Peter, hey!</quote>
-but not in <quote>Hey, Peter!</quote> </para> </listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>$</userinput> (end of string)</term>
-<listitem><para>Matches the end of the searched string.</para>
-
-<para>The expression <userinput>you\?$</userinput> will match at the
-last you in the string <quote>You didn't do that, did you?</quote> but
-nowhere in <quote>You didn't do that, right?</quote></para>
-
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\b</userinput> (word boundary)</term>
-<listitem><para>Matches if there is a word character at one side and not a word character at the
-other.</para>
-<para>This is useful to find word ends, for example both ends to find
-a whole word. The expression <userinput>\bin\b</userinput> will match
-at the separate <quote>in</quote> in the string <quote>He came in
-through the window</quote>, but not at the <quote>in</quote> in
-<quote>window</quote>.</para></listitem>
-
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>\B</userinput> (non word boundary)</term>
-<listitem><para>Matches wherever <quote>\b</quote> does not.</para>
-<para>That means that it will match for example within words: The expression
-<userinput>\Bin\B</userinput> will match at in <quote>window</quote> but not in <quote>integer</quote> or <quote>I'm in love</quote>.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>(?=PATTERN)</userinput> (Positive lookahead)</term>
-<listitem><para>A lookahead assertion looks at the part of the string following a possible match.
-The positive lookahead will prevent the string from matching if the text following the possible match
-does not match the <emphasis>PATTERN</emphasis> of the assertion, but the text matched by that will
-not be included in the result.</para>
-<para>The expression <userinput>handy(?=\w)</userinput> will match at <quote>handy</quote> in
-<quote>handyman</quote> but not in <quote>That came in handy!</quote></para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-<varlistentry>
-<term><userinput>(?!PATTERN)</userinput> (Negative lookahead)</term>
-
-<listitem><para>The negative lookahead prevents a possible match to be
-acknowledged if the following part of the searched string does match
-its <emphasis>PATTERN</emphasis>.</para>
-<para>The expression <userinput>const \w+\b(?!\s*&amp;)</userinput>
-will match at <quote>const char</quote> in the string <quote>const
-char* foo</quote> while it can not match <quote>const QString</quote>
-in <quote>const QString&amp; bar</quote> because the
-<quote>&amp;</quote> matches the negative lookahead assertion
-pattern.</para>
-</listitem>
-</varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-<sect1 id="backreferences">
-
-<title>Back References</title>
-
-<para></para>
-
-</sect1>
-
-</appendix>