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- <p>
- Perl-style format strings treat all characters as literals except '$' and
- '\' which start placeholder and escape sequences respectively.
- </p>
- <p>
- Placeholder sequences specify that some part of what matched the regular
- expression should be sent to output as follows:
- </p>
- <div class="informaltable"><table class="table">
- <colgroup>
- <col>
- <col>
- </colgroup>
- <thead><tr>
- <th>
- <p>
- Placeholder
- </p>
- </th>
- <th>
- <p>
- Meaning
- </p>
- </th>
- </tr></thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $&
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs what matched the whole expression.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $MATCH
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- As $&
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- ${^MATCH}
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- As $&
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $`
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs the text between the end of the last match found (or the
- start of the text if no previous match was found), and the start
- of the current match.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $PREMATCH
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- As $`
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- ${^PREMATCH}
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- As $`
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $'
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs all the text following the end of the current match.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $POSTMATCH
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- As $'
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- ${^POSTMATCH}
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- As $'
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $+
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs what matched the last marked sub-expression in the regular
- expression.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $LAST_PAREN_MATCH
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- As $+
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $LAST_SUBMATCH_RESULT
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs what matched the last sub-expression to be actually matched.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $^N
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- As $LAST_SUBMATCH_RESULT
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $$
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs a literal '$'
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $n
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs what matched the n'th sub-expression.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- ${n}
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs what matched the n'th sub-expression.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- $+{NAME}
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs whatever matched the sub-expression named "NAME".
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table></div>
- <p>
- Any $-placeholder sequence not listed above, results in '$' being treated
- as a literal.
- </p>
- <p>
- An escape character followed by any character x, outputs that character unless
- x is one of the escape sequences shown below.
- </p>
- <div class="informaltable"><table class="table">
- <colgroup>
- <col>
- <col>
- </colgroup>
- <thead><tr>
- <th>
- <p>
- Escape
- </p>
- </th>
- <th>
- <p>
- Meaning
- </p>
- </th>
- </tr></thead>
- <tbody>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \a
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs the bell character: '\a'.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \e
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs the ANSI escape character (code point 27).
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \f
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs a form feed character: '\f'
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \n
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs a newline character: '\n'.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \r
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs a carriage return character: '\r'.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \t
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs a tab character: '\t'.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \v
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs a vertical tab character: '\v'.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \xDD
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs the character whose hexadecimal code point is 0xDD
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \x{DDDD}
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs the character whose hexadecimal code point is 0xDDDDD
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \cX
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Outputs the ANSI escape sequence "escape-X".
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \D
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- If D is a decimal digit in the range 1-9, then outputs the text
- that matched sub-expression D.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \l
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Causes the next character to be outputted, to be output in lower
- case.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \u
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Causes the next character to be outputted, to be output in upper
- case.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \L
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Causes all subsequent characters to be output in lower case, until
- a \E is found.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \U
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Causes all subsequent characters to be output in upper case, until
- a \E is found.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td>
- <p>
- \E
- </p>
- </td>
- <td>
- <p>
- Terminates a \L or \U sequence.
- </p>
- </td>
- </tr>
- </tbody>
- </table></div>
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