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You can use meta-characters in the 'Search For' field:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| .
| any character except newline
| +
| one or more times
|-
| *
| zero or more times
| ?
| zero or one time
|-
| {n}
| match exact n times
| {n,m}
| at least n, at most m times
|-
| ~
|
| pipe: <tt>a~
| b</tt> matches a or b
| -
| hyphen, match a range of chars
|-
| ^
| beginning of a line
| $
| end of a line
|-
| [[...]]
| one of the char's of a set
| [[^...]]
| negated character set
|-
| \b
| word boundary
| \B
| word non boundary
|-
| \d
| numeral [[09|0-9]]
| \D
| non numeral [[09|^0-9]]
|-
| \s
| single white space
| \S
| single non white space
|-
| \w
| [[A Za Z09|A-Za-z0-9_]]
| \W
| [[A Za Z09|^A-Za-z0-9_]]
|-
| (...)
| grouping are stored as $1..$9
| \.
| escape a meta char
|}
The 'Replace with' field can use $1..$9 as a backreference to parentheses of 'Search for' field.
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Example: 

Search for '''/abc|def/''' will match the word 'abc' or the word 'def' 
Search for '''/bwiki/b''' will match the word 'wiki' but not the word 'jspwiki'. 
Search for '''^[[IVXMDCL]]+\.''' will match any combination of roman numeral char's followed by a period 
Search for '''/(-?\d+)(\d{3})/''' and replace with '''$1,$2''' to insert commas in large integers.

This is the [[Edit Find And Replace Help|EditFindAndReplaceHelp]] page.
[http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html More info on regular expressions],
JavaRegularExpressions, and [http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascriptexample.html RegExp Sandbox]

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