The Regular Expression Editor Manual

The Regular Expression Editor Manual

Jesper K. Pedersen (blackie kde.org)

Revision 0.1 (2001-07-03)

Copyright © 2001 Jesper K. Pedersen

This Handbook describes the Regular Expression Editor widget

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. What is a Regular Expression

3. Using the Regular Expression Editor

The organization of the screen
Editing Tools
User Defined Regular Expressions

4. Reporting bugs and Suggesting Features

5. Frequently Asked Questions

Does the regular expression editor support back references?
Does the regular expression editor support showing matches?
I'm the author of a KDE program, how can I use this widget in my application?
I can't find the Edit Regular expression button in for example konqueror on another KDE3 installation, why?

6. Credits and Licenses

List of Examples

2.1. Searching for normal text.
2.2. Matching URLs
2.3. Searching for the word the, but not there, breathe or another
2.4. Searching for either this or that
2.5. Matching anything
2.6. Replacing & with & in a HTML document

Introduction