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 The plus sign ‘+’ means one or more times. For example, case[0-9]+ matches case1, case12345, but not simply case.  | 
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 {3} occur exactly three times.  | 
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 {2,4} occur at least two times and as many as four times.  | 
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 {3,} occur at least three times up to infinity.  | 
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 The caret ‘^’ reverses the meaning of a regular expression element. For example, [^KLM] matches a single character that is not K, L, or M.  | 
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 A backslash ‘\’ followed by a lowercase ‘d’, \d, means a digit.   | 
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 A backslash ‘\’ followed by a lowercase ‘w’, \w, means a word character (an alphanumeric character or an underscore ‘_’). It has the same meaning as [a-zA-Z_0-9].   | 
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 A backslash ‘\’ followed by a lowercase ‘s’, \s, means a white space character. It has the same meaning as [\t\n\x0b\r\f].   | 
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 Two backslashes “\\” followed by a period ‘.’, \\., means a literal dot.  | 
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 The flag (?i) makes the regular expression case insensitive. In the Foglight APM, the Add OS Monitor wizard uses this flag in the Resource Mapping regular expression. For example: (?i).*host.*.  | 
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 The flag (?x) allows you to add comments to explain a complex or unusual pattern. The comment starts with a number sign ‘#’. For example: (?x)[KLM]:.* # We dislike drives K through M.  | 
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