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Table 1 Examples of Regular Special Symbols and Meaning

From: Construction of a semi-automatic ICD-10 coding system

Regular symbols

Meaning

^

Start position of string

*

The front character or expression 0 or more times.

.

Any single character other than null

x|y

X or Y, where x and y are one or more characters

?

Match the previous sub-expression zero or once