Regular Expression Syntax

There are two types of regular expressions: regex (OS_Regex) and sregex (OS_Match).

Regex (OS_Regex) syntax

This is a fast and simple library for regular expressions in C.

This library is designed to be simple while still supporting the most common regular expressions.

Supported expressions

Expressions Valid characters
\w A-Z, a-z, 0-9, ‘-‘, ‘@’ characters
\d 0-9 character
\s Spaces ” “
\t Tabs
\p ()*+,-.:;<=>?[]!”’#$%&|{}
\W Anything not w
\D Anything not d
\S Anything not s
\. Anything

Modifiers

Expressions Actions
+ To match one or more times
* To match zero or more times

Special characters

Expressions Actions
^ To specify the beginning of the text
$ To specify the end of the text
| To create a logical or between multiple patterns

Characters escaping

To utilize the following characters they must be escaped with: \

$ ( ) \ |
\$ \( \) \ \ \|

Sregex (OS_Match) syntax

This is faster than OS_Regex, but only supports simple string matching and the following special characters.

Special characters

Expressions Actions
^ To specify the beginning of the text
$ To specify the end of the text
| To create a logic: or, between multiple patterns
! To negate the expression