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~ — Regular-expression match on an object name

Synopsis

~ [regular-expression]

Description

This filter returns only those objects in the set that match regular-expression. The regular expression is a Java regular expression (even when you are using BBQ-IL), as described in the documentation for java.util.regex.Pattern.

Example

One of the most useful applications of regular expression matching is to do case-insensitive searching. The following expression finds references to all strings in the analyzed system that contain "select", regardless of case.

references to ~ "(?i)select" all strings

Applies to Type

object