Regular expressions are considerably enhanced in recent versions of Tcl, and this module, which assumes some prior knowledge of basic regular expressions, goes into advanced features such as groupings, sparse and greedy counts, and the Posix standard groups.
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Tcl Basics
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| T247.tcl | Tcl in use for CGI scripting |
| aretest | advanced regular expression match demo |
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Topics covered in this module
Where are regular expressions used?
Anchors, literals, counts and literal groups.
Advanced assertions \m \y \z and friends.
Posix standard literal groups.
Space and greedy counts, {} counts.
Grouping and grouping options.
Back references.
Substitute and execute using subst.
Example - analysing a URL string on a Web server.
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