Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • 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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/
/
gi

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use strict; my $str = 'N 45° 55.732 W 122° 29.882 N 047° 38.938\', W 122° 20.887\' 40.123, -74.123 40.123° N 74.123° W 40° 7´ 22.8" N 74° 7´ 22.8" W 40° 7.38’ , -74° 7.38’ N40°7’22.8, W74°7’22.8" 40°7’22.8"N, 74°7’22.8"W 40 7 22.8, -74 7 22.8 40.123 -74.123 40.123°,-74.123° 144442800, -266842800 40.123N74.123W 4007.38N7407.38W 40°7’22.8"N, 74°7’22.8"W 400722.8N740722.8W N 40 7.38 W 74 7.38 40:7:23N,74:7:23W 40:7:22.8N 74:7:22.8W 40°7’23"N 74°7’23"W 40°7’23" -74°7’23" 40d 7’ 23" N 74d 7’ 23" W 40.123N 74.123W 40° 7.38, -74° 7.38'; my $regex = qr/([ns]?(?: ?[+-]?\d+(?:\.\d+)?[°´’'"d:]?){1,3} ?[ns]?) ?,? ?([ew]?(?: ?[+-]?\d+(?:\.\d+)?[°´’'"d:]?){1,3} ?[ew]?)/ip; if ( $str =~ /$regex/g ) { 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