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Examples of Searching by Regular Expression: Enter To Find

Regular expressions can be used to perform complex searches in ENTERPRISE for network elements. They allow flexible criteria to be defined for filtering elements, searching on maps, and other functions. Some examples of regular expressions provided include: expressions to find all BSCs starting with "BSC", all properties starting with "PROPERTY", and cell names starting with "CELL" and ending with "A". Perl is used as the regular expression engine in ENTERPRISE.

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Examples of Searching by Regular Expression: Enter To Find

Regular expressions can be used to perform complex searches in ENTERPRISE for network elements. They allow flexible criteria to be defined for filtering elements, searching on maps, and other functions. Some examples of regular expressions provided include: expressions to find all BSCs starting with "BSC", all properties starting with "PROPERTY", and cell names starting with "CELL" and ending with "A". Perl is used as the regular expression engine in ENTERPRISE.

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Examples of Searching By Regular Expression

Regular expressions allow complex search criteria to be defined and are used:

 In creating static filters in the Filter Wizard


 To add items to the Selection filter
 When searching on the map
 In the neighbour chooser dialog box
 In advanced antenna searches
 When enforcing naming conventions for network elements

For its regular expressions, ENTERPRISE uses the Perl engine. Perl is widely documented on
the internet. For example, you can read more about Perl regular expressions at this location:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl/pod/perlre.pod

This table gives some examples of regular expressions that you might use in ENTERPRISE:

Enter To Find
.* Everything.
^BSC.* All BSCs beginning with BSC.
^PROPERTY.* All Properties beginning with PROPERTY.
^CELL.*A$ All sector cell names beginning with 'CELL' and ending
with the letter A (sector A).
^CELL0001. All the sectors for 'CELL0001' (A, B, C, …).
^SITE83(89|98)$j SITE8389 and SITE8398.
^SITE_\d+\w$ SITE followed by an underscore, followed by at least one
digit, followed by only one letter. For example this would
return SITE_102A, SITE_01B and SITE_123123123A.

But it would not return SITE0102A, SITE_0123ABC or


SITE__01A.
^Helier\d\d\.*A$ All elements beginning with Helier followed by two digits
and an A.
.*[A-F]$ Elements with names ending in a,b,c,d,e,f or A,B,C,D,E,F
unless you have selected the Match Case checkbox, in
which case it only returns elements with names ending in
A,B,C,D,E,F.
^(SITE|CELL)_[0-9]{4}[a- SITE or CELL followed by an underscore, followed by
fA-F]{0,1} exactly 4 digits, optionally followed by one letter. For
example, this matches SITE_3671 and CELL_3671C, but
does not match CELL_031A or SITE_0001TEST.
For example, this picture shows a search that has returned everything.

This picture shows an example of using regular expressions in the Selection Filter. For more
information on this, see About the Selection Expert and Selection Filter.

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