MOROS include a simplified regular expression engine with the following syntax:
\
escape the following character to its literal meaning^
matches the starting position within the string$
matches the ending position within the string*
matches the preceding element zero or more times+
matches the preceding element one or more times?
matches the preceding element zero or one time.
matches any single character\w
matches any alphanumeric character\W
matches any non-alphanumeric character\d
matches any numeric character\D
matches any non-numeric character\w
matches any whitespace character\W
matches any whitespace characterThe engine is UTF-8 aware, so for example the unicode character é
will be
matched by \w
even if it's not present in the ASCII table and has a size
of two bytes.