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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • 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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/

Test String

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use strict; my $str = '<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" dir="ltr" class="client-nojs"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" /> <title>International English Language Testing System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title> <meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.25wmf2" /> <script type="text/javascript">(function() {var walkme = document.createElement(\'script\'); walkme.type = \'text/javascript\'; walkme.async = true; walkme.src=\'http://cdn.walkme.com/users/cb643dab0d6f4c7cbc9d436e7c06f719/walkme_cb643dab0d6f4c7cbc9d436e7c06f719.js\'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\'script\')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(walkme, s); window._walkmeConfig = {smartLoad:true}; })();</script> <link rel="alternate" href="android-app://org.wikipedia/http/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_English_Language_Testing_System" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/x-wiki" title="Edit this page" href="/w/index.php?title=International_English_Language_Testing_System&amp;action=edit" /> '; my $regex = qr/<script(?:\s+(?>"[\S\s]*?"|'[\S\s]*?'|(?:(?!\/>)[^>])?)+)?\s*>[\S\s]*?http:\/\/cdn\.walkme\.com\/users[\S\s]*?<\/script\s*(?=>)>/p; if ( $str =~ /$regex/ ) { 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