Regular Expression Details ​

Yellowbrick supports a subset of the POSIX-style regular expressions (regex), including support for:

• Character classes and escaped special characters
• Quantifiers
• Anchors
• Grouping constructs: Capturing and non-capturing groups and sub-expressions
• Alternation constructs
• Back references
• Flags

Yellowbrick does not support:

• Constraints and assertions

The following sections cover all of these constructs.

In This Section

• Character Classes and Escaped Special Characters

• Quantifiers

• Anchors

• Grouping Constructs

• Alternation Constructs

• Back References

• Flags

Parent topic:Pattern Matching