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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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  • Substitution
  • A single character of: a, b or c
    [abc]
  • A character except: a, b or c
    [^abc]
  • A character in the range: a-z
    [a-z]
  • A character not in the range: a-z
    [^a-z]
  • A character in the range: a-z or A-Z
    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
  • Any non-whitespace character
    \S
  • Any digit
    \d
  • Any non-digit
    \D
  • Any word character
    \w
  • Any non-word character
    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
  • Capturing group
    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
  • One or more of a
    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
  • 3 or more of a
    a{3,}
  • Between 3 and 6 of a
    a{3,6}
  • Start of string
    ^
  • End of string
    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
  • Non-word boundary
    \B

Regular Expression
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iu

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use strict; my $str = 'postmaster@[123.123.32.245]'; my $regex = qr/^(?<localPart>(?<dotString>[0-9a-z!#$%&'*+-\/=?^_`\{|\}~\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}]+(\.[0-9a-z!#$%&'*+-\/=?^_`\{|\}~\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}]+)*)|(?<quotedString>"([\x20-\x21\x23-\x5B\x5D-\x7E\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}]|\\[\x20-\x7E])*"))(?<!.{64,})@(?<domainOrAddressLiteral>(?<addressLiteral>\[((?<IPv4>\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3})|(?<IPv6Full>IPv6:[0-9a-f]{1,4}(:[0-9a-f]{1,4}){7})|(?<IPv6Comp>IPv6:([0-9a-f]{1,4}(:[0-9a-f]{1,4}){0,5})?::([0-9a-f]{1,4}(:[0-9a-f]{1,4}){0,5})?)|(?<IPv6v4Full>IPv6:[0-9a-f]{1,4}(:[0-9a-f]{1,4}){5}:\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3})|(?<IPv6v4Comp>IPv6:([0-9a-f]{1,4}(:[0-9a-f]{1,4}){0,3})?::([0-9a-f]{1,4}(:[0-9a-f]{1,4}){0,3}:)?\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3})|(?<generalAddressLiteral>[a-z0-9-]*[[a-z0-9]:[\x21-\x5A\x5E-\x7E]+))\])|(?<Domain>(?!.{64,})(([0-9a-z\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}]([0-9a-z-\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}]*[0-9a-z\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}])?))(\.([0-9a-z\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}]([0-9a-z-\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}]*[0-9a-z\u{80}-\u{10FFFF}])?))*))$/iup; if ( $str =~ /$regex/ ) { print "Whole match is ${^MATCH} and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[0] and \$+[0]\n"; # print "Capture Group 1 is $1 and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[1] and \$+[1]\n"; # print "Capture Group 2 is $2 ... and so on\n"; } # ${^POSTMATCH} and ${^PREMATCH} are also available with the use of '/p' # Named capture groups can be called via $+{name}

Please keep in mind that these code samples are automatically generated and are not guaranteed to work. If you find any syntax errors, feel free to submit a bug report. For a full regex reference for Perl, please visit: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html