Software Dictionary Pattern Types

Regular Expression
"Regular Expression" refers to POSIX regular expressions. For more information on regular expressions, see The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 Web site (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html).

Examples of Regular Expression usage:

• To find all vendor names starting with "Novell", specify Novell.*
• To find executables, specify [exe|EXE]
• To find files with name containing 6 characters, starting with "r" and ending with "t", specify [r....t]
• To find files with name starting from A to C and ending with E, specify ^[A-C].*[E]
• To find files whose names do not match any uppercase letters, specify [^A-Z]

NOTE: To use metacharacters such as [, \, ^, $, ., |, ?, ( , ), *, and + as characters, you must prefix them with a backslash (\). For example, to specify c:\windows as a regular expression, specify it as c:\\windows.

Expandable Expression
An Expandable expression contains displayable characters, and the asterisk (*) wildcard character.

"*" matches to zero or more displayable characters.

Examples of Expandable Expression usage:

• To find all instances of the vendor name beginning with "Microsoft", specify Microsoft*
• To find files with the extension ".exe", specify exe

System Expandable Expression

• On NetWare: A System expandable expression contains displayable characters or references to environmental variables.

  Example of an environmental variable: $sysdir
  

• On Windows: A System expandable expression contains displayable characters, references to environmental variables, or the asterisk (*) wildcard character.
  
  "*" matches to zero or more displayable characters.

Example of an environmental variable: %temp%

NOTE: A System expandable expression can contain a combination displayable characters, references to environmental variables, or the asterisk (*) wildcard character but if it contains an environmental variable, you must specify it at the beginning of the expression. For example, %temp%/*.

Examples of System Expandable Expression usage:

• To find the disk usage of the C drive, specify C
• To find files in the c:\program files directory, specify c:\program files
• To find files with extensions .exe, specify *.exe

A trademark symbol (^®, ^TM, etc.) denotes a Novell trademark. For more information, see Legal Notices.