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Regular Expressions for Cisco ANA Shell

Regular Expressions for Cisco ANA Shell

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Cisco ANA shell uses the following regular expressions:

Wildcard	Meaning
%	Matches any string of zero or more characters.
-	Matches any one character.
[token]	Brackets enclose ranges or sets, such as [1-9] or [klmnopq]. There are two ways to format a token: •Range Start-stop: –Start is the beginning of the character range. –The dash ( - ) is a special character indicating a range. –Stop is the end of the character range. •Set Comprises discrete character values in any order. Examples: –[a4Bc] –[abcdefg]
[^token]	The caret ( ^ ) before a token indicates noninclusion. Example: [^c-g] means any character that is not c, d, e, f, or g.