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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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]
  • Character class intersection
    [\w&&[^\d]]
  • 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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Generated Code

use strict; my $str = '身分證 A112345678 b298765432 Z100000000 X212345678 a312345678 C0123456789 D11234567 日期 2025-02-28 2024-04-25 2023/12/01 2022 09 15 2023/02-31 2022 09 32 2025-00-01 2026/04/00 2024-13-25 電子信箱 example@example.com user123@subdom-ai.example.co.uk .name.surname@domain-name.com john_doe@examples.co.uk jane123@exampl.enet bob-smith@example.sa.as.edu peter1@example.org example - 缺少 \'@\' 和域名 example@.com - 缺少域名 example@example - 缺少頂級域名(如 .com、.net、.org 等) example@example.c - 頂級域名必須至少有兩個字元 example@exa_mple.com - 域名部分不應包含下劃線 example@example..com - 域名部分不應包含連續的點號 網址 https://www.example.com http://example.com www.example.com https://subdomain.example.com http://example.com/path/to/page www.example.com/path/to/page?query=param https://www.example.com/path/to/page?query=param&another=param example - 缺少協議(如 http:// 或 https://)和/或 www.。 http://example - 缺少頂級域名(如 .com、.net、.org 等)。 http://.com - 缺少域名。 http://example-.com - 域名或子域名不能以破折號結尾。 http://-example.com - 域名或子域名不能以破折號開頭。 http://exa--mple.com - 域名或子域名不能包含連續的破折號。 '; my $regex = qr/^[A-Za-z][12]\d{8}$/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