Regular Expression Syntax

A Regular Expression is a pattern of text that consists of ordinary characters (for example, letters a through z) and special characters, known as meta characters. The pattern describes one or more strings to match when searching a body of text. The Regular Expression serves as a template for matching a character pattern to the string being searched. This is similar to the expressions used for example when searching in the project list in Forsta Plus. However, Regular Expressions are far more flexible and complex than that.