Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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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
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/
gm

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use strict; my $str = ' en août, ni sur ceux récoltés ensuite (16.10.2014, M. Garnier-Delcourt & J. Thorn), peut-être parce que les sporophores étaient un peu dégradés par les intempéries ? Cortinarius emollitoides Bidaud, MoënneLocc. & Reumaux (Fig. 2) = C. galeobdolon Melot sensu auct. ; C. causticus Fr. sensu. auct. non Brandrud et al. (1998) Ard. : Consthum, Fridbësch (71/113), plantation d’Abies et de Picea, 12.11.2012, Ch. Reckinger 319 (h) ; ibid., 23.9.2014, Ch. Reckinger 405 (h) ; ibid., 23.9.2014, Ch. Reckinger 406 (h) ; ibid., 23.9.2014, Ch. Reckinger 406 (h) ; ibid., 23.9.2014, Ch. Reckinger 406 (h) ; ibid., 23.9.2014, Ch. Reckinger 406 (h) ; ibid., 23.9.2014, Ch. Reckinger 406 (h) ; ibid., 23.9.2014, Ch. Reckinger 406 (h) ; ibid., 23.9.2014, Ch. Reckinger 406 (h). Dans le sous-genre Myxacium (Fr.) Trog, qui regroupe en principe des cortinaires à chapeau et pied visqueux, la section Vibratiles Melot se distingue par l’amertume de la cuticule et généralement aussi de tout le sporophore. Elle comprend des espèces assez colorées (en jaune-brun ou rougebrun) ou peu co'; my $regex = qr/( ?ibid\., *(([0-3]?[0-9]\.)?[01]?[0-9]\.[0-9]{2,4}), *([^;]{0,50}) *(;|\) ?\.))/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