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Expression Syntax Elements

You can configure verbal expressions and custom placeholders by using elements from this table:

ElementAliasesDescriptionUsage examples
startstartofline, start of linemark expression with ^
endend of, endoflinemark the expression with $
thenfindadd a string to the expressionthen "abc"
maybedefine a string that might appear once or notmaybe "abc"
wordmatch any word that contains characters from a-z, A-Z, 0-9, including the _ (underscore) character
anythingaccept any string
rangeadd a range to the expressionrange "a,z,0,9"
somethingaccept any non-empty string
anythingbutanything butaccept any string but the specified characteranythingbut "abc"
anyofany, any ofany of the listed charactersanyof "abc"
somethingbutsomething butanything non-empty except for these characterssomethingbut "abc"
limitadd character limitlimit "1,3"
linebreakline break, brmatch \r \n (might be used only with other elements)
tabmatch tabs \t (might be used only with other elements)
multipleadds the multiple modifier
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