Regular Expression 正则表达式

不知到谁第一个将Regular Expression翻译为正则表达式，反正大家都这么称呼了。

快速入门看这几篇：
http://heishirt.blog.hexun.com/5134833_d.html#

http://www.regexlab.com/zh/regref.htm

http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/regex.htm

在Classic Shell Scripting 这本书的Chapter 3 , Searching and Substitutions中有详细讲解。

要深究，就要阅读下面这本书，共345页，全部讲的是regular expression。

Mastering Regular Expressions

Powerful Techniques for Perl and Other Tools

Jeffrey E.F. Friedl

O'REILLY?

几个名词解释：

literalA literal is any character we use in a search or matching expression, for example, to find ind in windows the ind is a literal string - each character plays a part in the search, it is literally the string we want to find.metacharacterA metacharacter is one or more special characters that have a unique meaning and are NOT used asliterals in the search expression, for example, the character ^ (circumflex or caret) is a metacharacter.