teach us regex

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Some help about valid regex codes would be really helpful.

I think several sites are having list of unix/Linux regex explanation, but
which ones you have incorporated is not known. Even if you could give some
link where such a tutorial is available, that would help.

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vsrawat on 13 Oct 2008 at 9:45

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Original comment by tortoisesvn on 13 Oct 2008 at 4:23

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Definitely agreed, just a comment or link to what flavor is used would be great.

Original comment by andygar...@gmail.com on 23 Oct 2008 at 3:40

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It uses boost:regex.
And if you press F1, a small help window will pop up.

Original comment by tortoisesvn on 23 Oct 2008 at 6:47

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Great to know what regex library is in use.  Not sure what you mean by pressing 
F1 -
pressing F1 in the "Rename" dialog does not open any other windows/dialogs.  
Pressing
F1 in the options dialog also has no effect.

But still, knowing boost::regex is used is a good starting point as I try to 
better
use the rename functionality.

Original comment by andygar...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2008 at 5:35

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Is it to safe to assume Perl syntax since boost::regex itself uses this as its 
default?

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_37_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax.html

Original comment by andygar...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2008 at 5:47

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Sorry, the F1 only works in grepWin (you can see: I've got too many projects 
going on
at once to keep track of them all :) ).

Yes, the perl syntax is what you can use (but *some* differences are there, 
because
boost:regex does not support all features of perl regex).

Original comment by tortoisesvn on 10 Nov 2008 at 6:59

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Original comment by tortoisesvn on 24 Nov 2008 at 7:35

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Added help dialog in r181.

Original comment by tortoisesvn on 24 Nov 2008 at 7:47

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