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Update documentation, remove obsolete GQview import options Update plugin and remote commands documentation. The last update for GQview was 13 years ago; presumably the import options are no longer useful.
author Colin Clark <colin.clark@cclark.uk>
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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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2 <section id="GuideReferencePCRE">
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3 <title id="titleGuideReferencePCRE">Perl Compatible Regular Expressions</title>
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4 <para>
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5 The Filename and Comment sections on the search window use
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6 <ulink url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Compatible_Regular_Expressions">Perl Compatible Regular Expressions</ulink>
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7 . In general use there are a number of differences to the wildcard expansion used on the command line:
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8 <itemizedlist>
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9 <listitem>Use "." and not "?" for a single character.</listitem>
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10 <listitem>Use "abc.*ghk" and not "abc*ghk" for multiple characters</listitem>
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11 <listitem>Use "\." to represent the dot in a file extension</listitem>
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12 <listitem>Use "(?i)" to make the following characters case-insensitive</listitem>
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13 </itemizedlist>
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14 </para>
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15 </section>