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Perl-совместимые регулярные выражения (Perl-compatible regular expressions)
  Name  |    Pcre regular expression details    |  Special start-of-pattern items  |  Ebcdic character codes  |  Characters and metacharacters  |  Backslash  |  Circumflex and dollar  |  Full stop (period, dot) and \n  |  Matching a single data unit  |  Square brackets and character classes  |  Posix character classes  |  Compatibility feature for word boundaries  |  Vertical bar  |  Internal option setting  |  Subpatterns  |  Duplicate subpattern numbers  |  Named subpatterns  |  Repetition  |  Atomic grouping and possessive quantifiers  |  Back references  |  Assertions  |  Conditional subpatterns  |  Comments  |  Recursive patterns  |  Subpatterns as subroutines  |  Oniguruma subroutine syntax  |  Callouts  |  Backtracking control  |  See also  |

PCRE REGULAR EXPRESSION DETAILS

The syntax and semantics of the regular expressions that are supported by PCRE are described in detail below. There is a quick-reference syntax summary in the pcresyntax page. PCRE tries to match Perl syntax and semantics as closely as it can. PCRE also supports some alternative regular expression syntax (which does not conflict with the Perl syntax) in order to provide some compatibility with regular expressions in Python, .NET, and Oniguruma.

Perl's regular expressions are described in its own documentation, and regular expressions in general are covered in a number of books, some of which have copious examples. Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions", published by O'Reilly, covers regular expressions in great detail. This description of PCRE's regular expressions is intended as reference material.

This document discusses the patterns that are supported by PCRE when one its main matching functions, pcre_exec() (8-bit) or pcre[16|32]_exec() (16- or 32-bit), is used. PCRE also has alternative matching functions, pcre_dfa_exec() and pcre[16|32_dfa_exec(), which match using a different algorithm that is not Perl-compatible. Some of the features discussed below are not available when DFA matching is used. The advantages and disadvantages of the alternative functions, and how they differ from the normal functions, are discussed in the pcrematching page.