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NAME

M_bre(3fp) - [M_BRE] Basic Regular Expressions (LICENSE:PD)

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description
Example
Author
Reference
License

SYNOPSIS

use M_bre, only: match, amatch, getpat, makpat use M_bre, only: YES, MAXPAT, MAXARG, MAXLINE, EOS, NEWLINE, ERR

DESCRIPTION

Find a string matching a regular expression.

o	zero or more occurrences of the previous character
.	any character
^	beginning of line
$	end of line
[]	class of characters. Inside the braces

           ^  at the beginning of the class means to
              negate the class.
           -  if not the first or last character in
              the class, denotes a range of characters

Escape characters:

\\n	newline
\\r	carriage return
\\t	tab
\\b	backspace

EXAMPLE

AUTHOR

John S. Urban

REFERENCE

"Software Tools" by Kernighan and Plauger , 1976

LICENSE

Public Domain

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M_bre (3)

March 11, 2021

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