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Further topics (see ?regexp in R):
character classes: e.g.,
POSIX names [:alnum:] [:alpha:] [:digit:] [:lower:] [:upper:] [:blank:]
sometimes shortcuts like
\w
or\s
.
(any character)
enumerators: *, +, ?, [1,10], [2,]
capturing matches and backreferencing, using
()
for capturing and$1
or\1
for backreferencing