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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

/
/
gm

Test String

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Generated Code

#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(?m)(?:\b\w++::\w++\s*+\(|\G(?<!^))\s*+(\w++)\s*+(?:\[[^]]*+]\s*+)?," Local $sString = "Not even sure how to attack this Regex Need (Multiline text with extraction of library names)" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "Sample Text" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ " box::use(" & @CRLF & _ " DBI[dbListTables, dbExecute]," & @CRLF & _ " Yessir[this_one, that one," & @CRLF & _ " and_this_one]," & @CRLF & _ " Maybesir[" & @CRLF & _ " func_one," & @CRLF & _ " func_two," & @CRLF & _ " ]," & @CRLF & _ " Nosir," & @CRLF & _ " " & @CRLF & _ " database = logic/database," & @CRLF & _ " log = logic/log," & @CRLF & _ " options = logic/options," & @CRLF & _ " utilities = logic/utilities," & @CRLF & _ " )" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "I would like to have a regexp which matches the following from the above text:" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ " DBI, Yessir, Maybesir, Nosir" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "Is there an easy way to approach this? I have been trying to use the regexp101 website to help me out here, but this one is sufficiently complex that I am a bit out of my depth. My current line is the following:" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ " box::use\(\n(?:[\s]*([A-Za-z0-9]*)(?:[A-Za-z0-9\[\]_\ ,]*\n))" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "But, this is of course not getting it. I am not sure how to handle getting the multiple (unknown how many there really would be) libraries inside the box::use function." & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "It might be easier to extract the text from inside the use::box function first and then regexp that?" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ " " & @CRLF & _ "Edit: Forgot to add that I am using Python3" 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