Quantifier

One of the following characters or strings: ?, *, +, {n,m}, or {n,}. For more information about these characters or strings, see Piece.

Syntax

quantifier :: = [?*+] | ('{'quantity'}')

Syntax

quantity :: = quantRange | quantMin | QuantExact

Syntax

quantRange :: = QuantExact ',' QuantExact

Syntax

quantMin :: = QuantExact ','

Syntax

QuantExact :: = [0-9]+

Example

The following are examples of allowed data for regex.

Regex Allowed data

a * x

x, ax, aax, aaax...

a ? x

ax, x

a + x

ax, aax, aaax...

(a | b) + x

ax, bx, aax, abx, bax, bbx, aaax, aabx, abax, abbx, baax, babx, bbax, bbbx, aaaax...

See Also

Reference

XML Schema Regular Expressions
XML Schema Regular Expressions Reference Chart
Piece

Concepts

Data Type Facets