check-regexp - test regular expressions from the command line

       check-regexp was written by Lorenzo Bettini <www.lorenzobettini.it>.  This man page was written by Cesare
       Tirabassi <norsetto@ubuntu.com>.

check-regexp 2.9                                    June 2008                                    CHECK-REGEXP(1)

       check-regexp (GNU Source-highlight)

       You  simply  pass as the first command line argument the regular expression and then the strings you want
       to try to match.
       It is crucial, in order to avoid shell substitutions, to enclose both the expression and the  strings  in
       single quotes.

       The program then prints some information about the possibly successful matching.
       In  the  output  the  what[0]  part  represents the whole match, and the what[i] part represents the i-th
       marked subexpression that matched.

       The program also prints possible prefix and suffix.

       check-regexp -  test regular expressions from the command line

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').
       A summary of options is included below.

       -h, --help
              Print help and exit

       -V, --version
              Print version and exit

check-regexp'regularexpression''string1''string2' ...