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 ===== A (very) short introduction to RegEx ===== ===== A (very) short introduction to RegEx =====
-"In computing, regular expressions, also referred to as RegEx or RegExp, provide a concise and flexible means for matching strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters." ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression][Wikipedia]]). +RegEx takes a pattern of characters you enter into the search field and looks for matches of these characters in the database. Let us assume that the database to be queried is a string of characters like "the man manually attached the tube in Manchester" without any separation of tokens and words. Let us now query the three letters //man//. In this case, RegEx looks for the letter <m> followed by an <a> and then an <n> in the database, regardless of what the pattern is preceded or followed by. As a result, you will get //man// and //manual//, but you will not get //Manchester//, because the RegEx search is case sensitive, see below.
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-As Wikipedia tells us, RegEx takes a pattern of characters you enter into the search field and looks for matches of these characters in the database. Let us assume that the database to be queried is a string of characters like "the man manually attached the tube in Manchester" without any separation of tokens and words. Let us now query the three letters //man//. In this case, RegEx looks for the letter <m> followed by an <a> and then an <n> in the database, regardless of what the pattern is preceded or followed by. As a result, you will get //man// and //manual//, but you will not get //Manchester//, because the RegEx search is case sensitive, see below.+
  
 However, RegEx also allows you to search for such things as alternatives (//man// or //men//), for word boundaries etc. RegEx is a syntax widely spread in programming languages. In what follows, we try to offer an easy overview over the functions you might use most often in this corpus.  For more information, we refer you to [[http://www.regular-expressions.info/regular-expressions.info]]. However, RegEx also allows you to search for such things as alternatives (//man// or //men//), for word boundaries etc. RegEx is a syntax widely spread in programming languages. In what follows, we try to offer an easy overview over the functions you might use most often in this corpus.  For more information, we refer you to [[http://www.regular-expressions.info/regular-expressions.info]].
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 ==Variable letters== ==Variable letters==
-If you are looking for any letter, you can use ''\w'' (Remember as: word character.)+If you are looking for any letter, you can use ''\w'' (remember as: word character.)
  
  
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 == Diacritica== == Diacritica==
-This corpus is set up so as to recognize umlauts and letters with accents as individuals (Keep in mind that this is not the case in many other uses of RegEx. Especially in programs that were developed in the US, a <ü> is not considered as a letter but rather as a boundary). In our corpus, seearching for ''/mange/'' will therefore not find any occurrences of //mangé//.+This corpus is set up so as to recognize umlauts and letters with accents as individuals (keep in mind that this is not the case in many other uses of RegEx. Especially in programs that were developed in the US, a <ü> is not considered as a letter but rather as a boundary). In our corpus, seearching for ''/mange/'' will therefore not find any occurrences of //mangé//.
  
 === Digits=== === Digits===
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