Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • 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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use strict; my $str = 'Maria Luiza Barreto Maria Luíza barreto da silva José João José João Paulo José João Silva Maria Silva Maria silva maria Silva MariaSilva Maria Silva Maria Silva Maria da Silva Marina Silva Maria / Silva Maria Silva Maria Silva Maria G. Silva Maria McDuffy Getúlio Dornelles Vargas Maria das Flores John Smith John D\'Largy John Doe-Smith John Doe Smith Hector Sausage-Hausen Mathias d\'Arras Martin Luther King Jr. Ai Wong Chao Chang Alzbeta Bara Marcos Assunção Maria da Silva e Silva Juscelino Kubitschek De Oliveira Natalia maria Natalia aria Natalia orea Maria dornelas María Luiza Samuel eto\' Maria da Costa e Silva Samuel Eto\'o Maria Luiza Barreto Da Silva Nathali Grasiela Quintans Andrade da Silva Barreto Nathali G. Q. A. Da S. Barreto María M Petros barreto da silva M D (?<! )[A-Za-zÀ-ú\']{2,}\\\\s[A-Za-zÀ-ú\' ]{2,}'; my $regex = qr/(?mi)^[A-Za-zÀ-ú](?!(?:.*\.\/\ ){2})(?!(?:.* ){10})(?!.*\.[a-z])[A-Za-zÀ-ú. '-]{5,99}[A-Za-zÀ-ú]$/mp; 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