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DEELX Basic Pattern Syntax: Character Boundary

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Character Boundary

A condition of the position, does not match any character.


Remarks

Some special defined punctuations do not match any character, but they are condition of the position:

Condition

Description

^

Current position must be the beginning of text

$

Current position must be the end of text

\b

Current position must be a word boundary

If the match mode is MULTILINE, ^ can match line begin, $ can match line end. Refer to Match Mode for more details.

If \b is contained into character set [], \b stands for backspace character (ASCII = 8).

 

 

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