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A PATTERN is a string of characters that specifies a set of
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possible strings of characters that are said to MATCH the
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pattern. Most characters in patterns stand for themselves,
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but there are metacharacters: "." that matches any
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character, "*" that along with the previous character, matches
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any number of repetitions of it (including none), "^" for
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beginning of line, "$" for end of line, and characters in
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brackets "[]" to match any of the characters. The special
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sense of metacharacters and of the delimiters in which the
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pattern is enclosed can always be turned off by preceeding
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them with the escape character "\".
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See also "hs", "hg", "hx" for uses of patterns.
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For the use of patterns in line numbers, type "hscan".
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For examples of pattern matches, type "hpatex".
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