Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 User Manual
Page 312
DREAMWEAVER CS3
User Guide
305
?
The preceding character at
most once (that is, indicates
that the preceding char-
acter is optional).
st?on
matches “son” in “Johnson” and “ston” in “Johnston”
but nothing in “Appleton” or “tension”
.
Any single character except
newline.
.an
matches “ran” and “can” in the phrase “bran muffins can
be tasty”
x|y
Either x or y.
FF0000|0000FF
matches “FF0000” in
bgcolor=”#FF0000”
and “0000FF’” in
font
color=”#0000FF”
{n}
Exactly n occurrences of the
preceding character.
o{2}
matches “oo” in “loom” and the first two o’s in
“mooooo” but nothing in “money”
{n,m}
At least n, and at most m,
occurrences of the
preceding character.
F{2,4}
matches “FF” in “#FF0000” and the first four Fs in
#FFFFFF
[abc]
Any one of the characters
enclosed in the brackets.
Specify a range of charac-
ters with a hyphen (for
example, [a-f ] is equivalent
to [abcdef ]).
[e-g]
matches “e” in “bed”, “f” in “folly”, and ”g” in “guard”
[^abc]
Any character not enclosed
in the brackets. Specify a
range of characters with a
hyphen (for example, [^a-f ]
is equivalent to [^abcdef ]).
[^aeiou]
initially matches “r” in “orange”, “b” in “book”,
and “k” in “eek!”
\b
A word boundary (such as a
space or carriage return).
\bb
matches “b” in “book” but nothing in “goober” or “snob”
\B
Anything other than a word
boundary.
\Bb
matches “b” in “goober” but nothing in “book”
\d
Any digit character. Equiva-
lent to [0-9].
\d
matches “3” in “C3PO” and “2” in “apartment 2G”
\D
Any nondigit character.
Equivalent to [^0-9].
\D
matches “S” in “900S” and “Q” in “Q45”
\f
Form feed.
\n
Line feed.
\r
Carriage return.
\s
Any single white-space
character, including space,
tab, form feed, or line feed.
\sbook
matches ”book” in “blue book” but nothing in
“notebook”
\S
Any single non-white-
space character.
\Sbook
matches “book” in “notebook” but nothing in “blue
book”
\t
A tab.
Character
Matches
Example
September 4, 2007