regex info for mirc

\d{5}		-- would match a substring of five digits
\d{,4}	-- would match a substring of zero to four digits
\d{6,}	-- would match a substring of at least six digits

\x03	(3)	-- matches the color symbol (mIRC's ctrl+k)
\x02	(2)	-- matches the bold symbol (mIRC's ctrl+b)
\x0f	(15)	-- matches the control-code strip character (mIRC's ctrl+o)
\x1f	(31)	-- matches the underline symbol (mIRC's ctrl+u)
\x16	(22)	-- matches the reverse symbol (mIRC's ctrl+r)
\x1d	(29)	-- matches the italics symbol (mIRC's ctrl+i) (mIRC 7 only)

(a)\1\1\1	-- the \1 would match a previous group, the first one for \1, 2nd for \2, etc. as if for duplicates in a string, in this case:  aaaa
Text:	'joey the joelster wanted to get a cup of joe'
Regex1:	(joe)y the \1lster wanted to get a cup of  \1				-- Simple grouping example
Regex2:	(joe)y (t)h(e) \1ls\2\3r w(a)n\2\3d \2(o) g\3\2 \4 cup \5f \1	-- As you see, abuse of grouping (please don't do this!!)
Regex3:	(joe.*?){3}										-- Serious inclusion abuse to match three uses of 'joe' followed by some set of unknown text.
Regex4:	[Jj]oey the [Jj]oelster wanted to get a cup of joe			-- Example of potentially unknown capitalization of a word
Regex5:	joey.the.joelster.wanted.to.get.a.cup.of.joe				-- Would allow for potential replacement of the spaces  with underscores
(aab){5}													-- would match the repeating substring of 'aabaabaabaabaab'

* = 0-inf
+ = 1-inf
. = 1
? = 0 or 1

Special characters: [\^$.|?*+()

[]		-- match single character of contents, EX [a-z] matches any lower case letter
[^]		-- excludes contents, EX [^a-z] excludes lower case letters from match
\d 		-- single digit, [0-9]
\w		-- single alphanumeric or underscore, [A-Za-z0-9_]
\s		-- space, tab, hardspace (chr 160)
\t		-- tab (0x09)
\r		-- return carriage (0x0D)
\n		-- line feed (0x0A)
\b		-- match word boundry, -, and more !!!!!DON'T USE!!!!!
\xFF		-- FF being hexidecimal value for a character
^		-- start of string
$		-- end of string
//i		-- case insensetive
//S		-- strip
//g		-- global search
\l lowercase next char (think vi)
\u uppercase next char (think vi)
\L lowercase till \E (think vi)
\U uppercase till \E (think vi)
\E end case modification (think vi)
\Q quote (disable) pattern metacharacters till \E