It looks to me like the syntax for the POSIX character classes is 
different on the Wikipedia article to the Java Pattern class.  8^(    
(You know what they say about standards...) 

These are quite useful, so this could be important to note.

Larry Becker wrote:
> I like the "POSIX Basic Regular Expressions" section of the Wikipedia 
> article.  Still not for the feint-of-heart.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Martin Davis <mbda...@refractions.net 
> <mailto:mbda...@refractions.net>> wrote:
>
>     Check these out:
>
>     
> http://leepoint.net/notes-java/data/strings/40regular_expressions/05regex.html
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
>
>
>     Martin Davis wrote:
>     > Yes, that would be nice.  The Pattern language is *very*
>     powerful, but
>     > *very* complex too.
>     >
>     > Hmm... there's a book in there I think - or at least a nice website.
>     >
>     > The language I think follows most common conventions for regex
>     languages
>     > - and I'm pretty sure there's some good general references out
>     there.
>     > I'll post if I find one.
>     >
>     > I use this a lot in JEQL scripts - so it would be nice to have a
>     > reference site for that too.
>     >
>     > Larry Becker wrote:
>     >
>     >> That's it.  I've looked for a better (more user oriented)
>     reference,
>     >> but never found one.
>     >>
>     >> Larry
>     >>
>     >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Martin Davis
>     <mbda...@refractions.net <mailto:mbda...@refractions.net>
>     >> <mailto:mbda...@refractions.net
>     <mailto:mbda...@refractions.net>>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>     Perhaps
>     >>
>     >>    
>     http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html
>     >>
>     >>     ??
>     >>
>     >>     Stefan Steiniger wrote:
>     >>     >
>     >>     >> By the way, since it uses the Java pattern matcher,
>     Search All
>     >>     >> Attributes supports many different meta-characters to
>     control
>     >>     the search
>     >>     >> such as ^ to match the start of a line and $ to match
>     the end.
>     >>     >>
>     >>     > oha..interesting.. how to get to know these chars?
>     >>     > is there a table?
>     >>     >
>     >>     > stefan
>     >>     >
>     >>     >
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