TWO-DIMENSIONAL REGULAR EXPRESSIONS



Normal Regular Expressions:

*zero or more ...
+one or more ...
?zero or one ...

Multi-Record Regular Expressions:

<tab>*\nzero or more records ...
<tab>+\none or more records ...
<tab>?\nzero or one records ...


Examples of a multi-record regular expressions:

^[A-Z].*[A-Z]$<tab>+\none or one records beginning and ending with upper-case letters
^X$followed by a single record containing just the letter X


B-<tab>+\n
A<tab>+\n
C<tab>+\n
H<tab>+\n