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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mig

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(?mi)^(?=(?:\+|0{2})?(?:(?:[\(\-\)\t\f ]*\d){7,10})?(?:[\t\f ]?\d{2,3})(?:[\-\s]?[ext]{1,3}[\-\t\f ]?\d{1,4})?$)((?:\+|0{2})\d{0,3})?(?:[\-\t\f ]?)(\(0?\d{1,3}\)|\d{0,3})(?:[\-\t\f ]{0,2}\d){3,}(?:[\-\s]?(?:x|ext)[\-\t\f ]?(\d{1,4}))?$" Local $sString = "123456789" & @CRLF & _ "1234567890123456" & @CRLF & _ "1234567890123" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "0091234567890" & @CRLF & _ "+9 123-4567890-x321" & @CRLF & _ "+9-123-456-7890" & @CRLF & _ "+9 123 4 5 6-7890x1234" & @CRLF & _ "009-(123)-456-7890 ext4321" & @CRLF & _ "0091234567890x1234" & @CRLF & _ "+9-123-456-7890x12345" & @CRLF & _ "+9-123-456-7890 ext 1234" & @CRLF & _ "0027-123-456-7890" & @CRLF & _ "+27-123-456-7890" & @CRLF & _ "+9(123)4567890" & @CRLF & _ "911" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ " (0)123456789" & @CRLF & _ "+34123456789" & @CRLF & _ "+34 (0)123456789" & @CRLF & _ " +340123456789" & @CRLF & _ "+34 123 456 789" & @CRLF & _ "+34 1 23 45 67 89" & @CRLF & _ "001230123456789" & @CRLF & _ "ext1234" & @CRLF & _ "++34123456789" & @CRLF & _ "00-0-----000" & @CRLF & _ "01 555012345" & @CRLF & _ "001-555012345" & @CRLF & _ "+012345678" & @CRLF & _ "112" & @CRLF & _ "12(34567890" & @CRLF & _ "123)456789012345" & @CRLF & _ "" Local $aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sRegex, $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALFULLMATCH) Local $aFullArray[0] For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) -1 _ArrayConcatenate($aFullArray, $aArray[$i]) Next $aArray = $aFullArray ; Present the entire match result _ArrayDisplay($aArray, "Result")

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 AutoIt, please visit: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm