Regular Expression examples by Zathras

Common Pre-defined Expression Characters/Meta Characters:

\d	any digit from 0 thru 9
\D	any alpha character (including "_")
[a-z]	any alpha character from a thru z
[0-9]	and digit from 0 thru 9
{x}	repeat previous expression x number of times (x = a number)
^	look from the the beginning of the name
$	look at the end of the name
.	any alpha-numeric character
+	repeat last expression

\d is equivalent to [0-9]. The latter is useful if you want to limit the range. Example [3-6] (3 thru 6)

Following syntax rules, the above list of characters can be combined in various ways to form "regular expressions". These expressions are used to describe a pattern of text -- in this case, bot names.

More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions
And here (from Chet): http://www.regular-expressions.info/

To Use Regular Expressions:

• Open up the Super Iggy bin in Y!TunnelPro.
• Click the "Add" button.
• Type in or cut/paste the regular expression into the blank field at the top of the window.
• Set "Search Type" to "Use regular expression pattern matching".
• Click "OK".

Example Regular Expressions: (Updated 02/02/07)

Below are some examples of regular expressions and the basic syntax. Most of the bot names are real and the expressions will work. I'll try to update this list an on-going basis.

The "..." means there were some miscellaneous characters in the bot name that I left out.
The red colored text is the bot name.
The blue colored text is the regular expression and what should be typed in, or cut/paste.

aa1...		^aa1 or ^aa\d+ (The latter will block any name beginning with aa followed by any number)
flower8gurl68		flower\d+gurl\d+
amanda_807_tall		_\d{3}_tall
amanda_hottie_906		hottie_\d{3} or hottie
always_tania_269		always_[a-z]+_\d{3}
naughty_eireen_328		naughty_[a-z]+_\d{3} or ^naughty_
jolly_samanta_27		jolly_[a-z]+_\d+ or ^jolly_
ana_girl_for_you		_girl_for_you$
a_lucious_grl0435		a_[a-z]+_grl\d or ^a_lucious
sonya_69_cam1137		_cam\d+$ or _69_
jennifer607_xum		jennifer\d{3}_[a-z]{3}
mindy724_yie		mindy\d{3}_[a-z]{3}
aurora753_joy		aurora\d{3}_[a-z]{3}
kimberlyphgg_419		kimberly[a-z]{4}_\d{3}
kylieo30755_wft		kylie[a-z]\d+_[a-z]{3}
biancadpb236		bianca[a-z]{3}\d{3}
cassandralq384d		cassandra[a-z]{2}\d{3}[a-z]
a_23bad_pandora		a_\d{2}bad_ or ^a_\d{2}
a_28hot_women		a_\d{2}hot_ or ^a_\d{2} or hot_women
a_22girl_...		a_\d{2}girl_ or ^a_\d{2}
pretttttybabe18		prettt
amanda.vegas		[.] (This will block any name with a period in it)
curvy.grl_xox_vs		[a-z]+[.][a-z]+_[a-z]+_ or [a-z]+[.][a-z]+ or [.]
raslazjsandyez		[a-z]+z[a-z]+z$ (May block some real users also)
john_ghjfgkjfg		_[^aeiou0-9_]{6} or john_[^aeiou0-9_]{6} (Likely to block some real users also)
pink_r1mzd5ge7izb		^pink_ (May block some real users also)
m3o4q9l2y2gs		[a-z]\d[a-z]\d[a-z]\d
ec47hj7qb2ch6lj1		[a-z]{2}\d{2}[a-z]{2}\d{1}[a-z]{2}
aj86ivv75op		[a-z]{2}\d{2}[a-z]{3}\d{2}
yv87ok39		[a-z]{2}\d{2}[a-z]{2}\d{2}