From 7da06eeede10fc8b908327b375bcdf36707ff7b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Carsey, Jaben" </o=Intel/ou=Americas01/cn=Workers/cn=Carsey, Jaben>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 06:34:04 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] BaseTools: Add new RegEx pattern to GlobalData

Cc: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com>
Cc: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1
Signed-off-by: Jaben Carsey <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yonghong Zhu <yonghong.zhu@intel.com>
---
 BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/GlobalData.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/GlobalData.py b/BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/GlobalData.py
index fab67601a9..f58dc5a8dd 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/GlobalData.py
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/Python/Common/GlobalData.py
@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ gGuidPatternEnd = re.compile(r'{}$'.format(_GuidPattern))
 g4HexChar = re.compile(r'{}{{4}}'.format(_HexChar))
 gHexPattern = re.compile(r'0[xX]{}+'.format(_HexChar))
 
+## Regular expressions for string identifier checking
+gIdentifierPattern = re.compile('^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$', re.UNICODE)
+
 #
 # A global variable for whether current build in AutoGen phase or not.
 #
-- 
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