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    Home FortiMail 6.4.3 Administration Guide
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    Syntax

    Syntax

    The following table lists some example regular expressions, and describes matches for each expression. Regular expressions on FortiMail units use Perl-style syntax.

    Regular expression syntax

    Expression

    Matches

    abc

    abc (the exact character sequence, but anywhere in the string)

    ^abc

    abc at the beginning of the string

    abc$

    abc at the end of the string

    a|b

    Either a or b

    ^abc|abc$

    abc at either the beginning or the end of the string

    ab{2,4}c

    a followed by two, three or four b characters, followed by c

    ab{2,}c

    a followed by at least two “b”s followed by a “c”

    ab*c

    a followed by any number (zero or more) of “b”s followed by a “c”

    ab+c

    a followed by one or more b's followed by a c

    ab?c

    a followed by an optional “b” followed by a” c”; that is, either “abc” or “ac”

    a.c

    a followed by any single character (not newline) followed by a “c”

    a\.c

    a.c

    [abc]

    Any one of a, b or c

    [Aa]bc

    Either Abc or abc

    [abc]+

    Any combination of one or more a, b, and/or c characters (such as a, abba, or acbabcacaa)

    [^abc]+

    Any combination of one or more characters that does not contain an a, b, and/or c (such as defg)

    \d\d

    Any two decimal digits, such as 42; same as \d{2}

    \w+

    A word (a non-empty sequence of alphanumeric characters and underscores), such as foo, 12bar8, or foo_1

    100\s*mk

    100 and mk separated by zero or more white space characters (spaces, tabs, newlines)

    abc\b

    abc when followed by a word boundary (for example, abc! but not abcd)

    start\B

    start when not followed by a word boundary (for example, starting but not start time)

    \x

    Ignores white space that is neither preceded by a backslash character nor within a character class. Use this to break up a regular expression into (slightly) more readable parts.

    /x

    Used to add regular expressions within other text. If the first character in a pattern is forward slash (/), the / is treated as the delimiter. The pattern must contain a second /. The pattern between / will be taken as a regular expression, and anything after the second / will be parsed as a list of regular expression options (i, x, etc). An error occurs If the second / is missing. In regular expressions, the leading and trailing space is treated as part of the regular expression.
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    Syntax

    Syntax

    The following table lists some example regular expressions, and describes matches for each expression. Regular expressions on FortiMail units use Perl-style syntax.

    Regular expression syntax

    Expression

    Matches

    abc

    abc (the exact character sequence, but anywhere in the string)

    ^abc

    abc at the beginning of the string

    abc$

    abc at the end of the string

    a|b

    Either a or b

    ^abc|abc$

    abc at either the beginning or the end of the string

    ab{2,4}c

    a followed by two, three or four b characters, followed by c

    ab{2,}c

    a followed by at least two “b”s followed by a “c”

    ab*c

    a followed by any number (zero or more) of “b”s followed by a “c”

    ab+c

    a followed by one or more b's followed by a c

    ab?c

    a followed by an optional “b” followed by a” c”; that is, either “abc” or “ac”

    a.c

    a followed by any single character (not newline) followed by a “c”

    a\.c

    a.c

    [abc]

    Any one of a, b or c

    [Aa]bc

    Either Abc or abc

    [abc]+

    Any combination of one or more a, b, and/or c characters (such as a, abba, or acbabcacaa)

    [^abc]+

    Any combination of one or more characters that does not contain an a, b, and/or c (such as defg)

    \d\d

    Any two decimal digits, such as 42; same as \d{2}

    \w+

    A word (a non-empty sequence of alphanumeric characters and underscores), such as foo, 12bar8, or foo_1

    100\s*mk

    100 and mk separated by zero or more white space characters (spaces, tabs, newlines)

    abc\b

    abc when followed by a word boundary (for example, abc! but not abcd)

    start\B

    start when not followed by a word boundary (for example, starting but not start time)

    \x

    Ignores white space that is neither preceded by a backslash character nor within a character class. Use this to break up a regular expression into (slightly) more readable parts.

    /x

    Used to add regular expressions within other text. If the first character in a pattern is forward slash (/), the / is treated as the delimiter. The pattern must contain a second /. The pattern between / will be taken as a regular expression, and anything after the second / will be parsed as a list of regular expression options (i, x, etc). An error occurs If the second / is missing. In regular expressions, the leading and trailing space is treated as part of the regular expression.
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