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Regular Expressions (RegEx)

The following describes only the most frequently used options in regular expressions. For a further introduction to regular expressions refer to the following sources:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/regex/

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html

Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition, published by O´Reilly

The regular expressions used in EEC comply with the implementation of the programming language Java. It should be noted that in EEC-strings, the backslash character (\) needs to be quoted. I.e. in regular expressions with a backslash two of them are to use (\\).