AVEVA Clash Manager™ 14.3 User Guide

Value	Meaning
^	Matches the start of a line
$	Matches the end of a line
.	Matches any character
*	Matches zero or more occurrences of the previous expression
[string]	Matches any one of the characters listed in string

Example Expression	Matches	Result of Example Expression
^[AB]305$	A string beginning with ‘A’ or ‘B’ and ending with ‘305’	A305 or B305
[AB]305	A string containing ‘A’ or ‘B’ followed by ‘305’	IBMA305HAL or PQRB305LMN
!TEMP45	Any string that does NOT contain ‘TEMP45’	/THIS/string/Matches
^/S45/.*/TEMP45$	A string beginning /S45 and ending with TEMP45	/S45/ABCanythinggoeshere 345/TEMP45
!^/S45	Any string that does not begin with /S45

Value	Meaning
%	Any number of characters of any value
_	Each underscore represents a single character of any value

Example Expression	Matches
%pipe%	Any string of any number of characters that contains 'pipe'
pipe_	Any string that starts 'pipe' and ends with a single character