Ordinary characters consist of all printable and non-printable characters that are not explicitly designated as metacharacters. This includes all uppercase and lowercase alphabetic characters, all digits, all punctuation marks, and some symbols.
Examples of Regular Expressions
The simplest form of a regular expression is a single, ordinary character that matches itself in a searched string. For example, the single-character pattern 'A' matches the letter 'A' wherever it appears in the searched string. Here are some examples of single-character regular expression patterns:
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/a/
/7/
/M/ |
The equivalent VBScript single-character regular expressions are:
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"a"
"7"
"M" |
You can combine a number of single characters to form a larger expression. For example, the following JScript regular expression is nothing more than an expression created by combining the single-character expressions 'a', '7', and 'M'.
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/a7M/ |
The equivalent VBScript expression is:
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"a7M" |
Notice that there is no concatenation operator. All that is required is that you just put one character after another.
