Regular Expressions 101

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  • All 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
No Match

/
/
g

Test String

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Generated Code

use strict; my $str = '20-03-2017 17:26:39 GET /ourapps.php HTTP/1.1 HTTP headers: Accept-Language: pt-BR,en-US;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1; 4017F Build/LMY47I; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/43.0.2357.121 Mobile Safari/537.36 Accept: application/json, text/plain, */* Connection: close 20-03-2017 20:17:08 GET /ourapps.php HTTP/1.1 HTTP headers: Accept-Charset: utf-8, iso-8859-1, utf-16, *;q=0.7 Accept-Language: pt-BR, en-US Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate X-Wap-Profile: http://gsm.lge.com/html/gsm/E467f-M3-D1.xml User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 4.1.2; pt-br; LG-E467f Build/JZO54K) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30 Accept: application/json, text/plain, */* Connection: close 20-03-2017 21:09:36 GET /ourapps.php HTTP/1.1 HTTP headers: Accept-Language: pt-BR,en-US;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; SM-G355M Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/30.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 Accept: application/json, text/plain, */* Connection: close '; my $regex = qr/(?P<browser>Android)\s(?P<major_version>\d+)\.(?P<minor_version>\d+\.?\d?);(?P<lang>\spt-br){0,1};{0,1}(?P<device>[ \w\-?]+)\s/p; 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