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Per Amundsen, 07/20/2017 04:27 PM

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h1. Regular Expressions
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"Regular expressions":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression is a powerful tool to match text using a pattern, they can be used in many places such as searching log files, searching text-buffers, highlight matching and scripting, .
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_See also [[$regex]], [[$regsub]],  [[$regsubex]],  [[$regml]]._
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h1. Regular Expressions Engines
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*As of 2.9 AdiIRC has built-in support for "PCRE2":https://github.com/ltrzesniewski/pcre-net expressions provided that "Visual C++ 2015 x86":https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/A/A/6AA4EDFF-645B-48C5-81CC-ED5963AEAD48/vc_redist.x86.exe is installed for 32 bit AdiIRC or "Visual C++ 2015 x64":https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/A/A/6AA4EDFF-645B-48C5-81CC-ED5963AEAD48/vc_redist.x64.exe is installed for 64 bit AdiIRC.*
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AdiIRC will automatically use PCRE2 if available, although it can be disabled by typing *[[/setoption]] Misc UsePcre False*, in this case AdiIRC will fallback to .NET regular expressions.
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The .NET regular expression engine is different from the PCRE engine which mIRC uses, some differences are converted from PCRE to .NET while others are not possible.
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*Read more about PCRE2 regular expressions.*
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http://www.regular-expressions.info/pcre2.html
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http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html
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*Read more about .NET regular expressions:*
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http://regexhero.net/reference/
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs600312%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/az24scfc%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
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http://www.regular-expressions.info/dotnet.html
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h1. Modifiers
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/g /G - Enables global match.
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/i /I - Enables case in-sensitive match.
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/S - Strips any [[Formatting_Text|control codes]] before matching ([[$hfind]] will ignore this). 
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/s - Enables single line match.
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/m /M /c /C - Enables multi line match.
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/x /X - Eliminates unescaped white space from the pattern.
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/U - Enables non greedy mode. (Tries to replace greedy patterns with non greedy patterns + > +?, * -> *?)
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<notextile>/u - Enables UTF8 instead of ASCII regular expression.</notextile>
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h1. Differences between .NET and PCRE
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When PCRE support is not available, AdiIRC translate some PCRE patterns into .NET patterns.
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<notextile>(*UTF8)/(*UTF) -> Enables UTF8 instead of ASCII regular expression.</notextile>
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<notextile>(?R) -> .*</notextile>
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<notextile>(?2) -> .*</notextile>
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<notextile>(?1) -> .*</notextile>
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<notextile>++ -> +</notextile>
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<notextile>[:alnum:] -> a-zA-Z0-9</notextile>
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<notextile>[:alpha:] -> a-zA-Z</notextile>
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<notextile>[:ascii:] -> \x00-\x7F</notextile>
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<notextile>[:blank:] -> \s\t</notextile>
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<notextile>[:cntrl:] -> \x00-\x1F\x7F</notextile>
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<notextile>[:digit:] -> 0-9</notextile>
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<notextile>[:graph:] -> \x21-\x7E</notextile>
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<notextile>[:lower:] -> a-z</notextile>
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<notextile>[:print:] -> \x20-\x7E</notextile>
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<notextile>[:punct:] -> !"#$%&'()*+,\-./:;<=>?@[\\\]^_`{|}~</notextile>
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<notextile>[:space:] -> \s\t\r\n\v\f</notextile>
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<notextile>[:upper:] -> A-Z</notextile>
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<notextile>[:word:] - > A-Za-z0-9_</notextile>
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<notextile>[:xdigit:] -> A-Fa-f0-9</notextile>
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<notextile>\cc -> \x003</notextile>
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<notextile>\co -> \x00F</notextile>
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<notextile>\cb -> \x002</notextile>
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<notextile>\x\{([A-Fa-f0-9]{1,4})\} -> \uXXXX</notextile>
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<notextile>\Q \E tries to escapes all characters in between</notextile>
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\K is not available in .NET, use (<=abc)d instead.
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These have no .NET counterpart:
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code (?{…})
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recursive (R), (R1), (R&name)
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define (DEFINE).
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List of differences between .NET and PCRE https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3417644/translate-perl-regular-expressions-to-net