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Regular Expression Selections

The Regular Expression Selections tab provides access to the operations on advanced selections by regular expressions.

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Function

Description

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Save all the regular expressions

Saves all expressions of complex selections in a file. This allows the same expressions to be used in several databases.

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Open regular expressions file

Import and recall a saved file of complex selections.

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Create regular expressions group

Creates a new group of regular expressions.

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Delete regular expressions group

Deletes the selected group of regular expressions.

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Create regular expressions based selection

Creates a new regular expression to use as a selection criterion.

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Delete regular expressions

Deletes the selected regular selection expression.

Example

A selection of all the objects named box will have the following regular expression: box*.

A group of regular expressions containing the following regular expressions: box* and cyl* will select in one go all the objects named box and all the objects named cylinder.

Tip

To activate a selection group by regular expression, double-click on its name in the list of regular expression groups.