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Expressions

Mask pattern is described in terms of regular expressions.

Parts of expression that must be masked are in parenthesis.

.: Dot means any character.
.*: Dot followed by asterisk mean sequence of characters or empty sequence.
.+: Dot followed by plus sign mean one or more characters. Empty sequence is not matched by this expression.
.{n}: Dot followed by an integer number in curly brackets means up to n characters.
[.]: Dot in square brackets means dot character.