Escaped Characters in Regular Expressions

Regex(

	"Are you there, Alice?, asked Jerry.", // source

	"(here|there).+(\w+).+(said|asked)(\s)(\w+)\." ); // regular expression

"there, Alice?, asked Jerry."

(here\|there).+	Matches “there”, a comma, and a space.
(\w+)	Matches “Alice”.
.+	Matches “?, “.
(said\|asked)(\s)	Matches “asked” followed by a space. Without the space, the match would end here; “asked” is followed by a space in the source string.
(\w+)\.	Matches “Jerry” and a period.

Table 6.9 describes the escaped characters supported in JMP. \C, \G, \X, and \z are not supported.

Table 6.9 Escaped Characters
\\	single backslash
\A	start of a string
\b	word boundary. The zero-length string between \w and \W or \W and \w.
\B	not at a word boundary
\cX	ASCII control character
\d	single digit [0-9]
\D	single character that is NOT a digit [^0-9]
\E	stop processing escaped characters
\l	match a single lowercase letter [a-z]
\L	single character that is not lowercase [^a-z]
\Q	ignore escaped characters until \E is found
\r	carriage return
\s	single whitespace character
\S	single character that is NOT white space
\u	single uppercase character [A-Z]
\U	single character that is not uppercase [^A-Z]
\w	word character [a-zA-Z0-9_]
\W	single character that is NOT a word character [^a-zA-Z0-9_]
\x00-\xFF	hexadecimal character
\x{0000}-\x{FFFF}	Unicode code point
\Z	end of a string before the line break