regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

^start of line

Positive Lookahead(?=.*[a-z])

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Character Class[a-z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

Positive Lookahead(?=.*[A-Z])

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Character Class[A-Z]

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Positive Lookahead(?=.*\d)

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

\da digit

Positive Lookahead(?=.*[~!@#$%^&*])

.*any character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

Character Class[~!@#$%^&*]

~the literal ~ (126₁₀ / 176₈ / 7E₁₆)

!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

@the literal @ (64₁₀ / 100₈ / 40₁₆)

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

$the literal $ (36₁₀ / 44₈ / 24₁₆)

%the literal % (37₁₀ / 45₈ / 25₁₆)

^the literal ^ (94₁₀ / 136₈ / 5E₁₆)

&the literal & (38₁₀ / 46₈ / 26₁₆)

*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

Character Class[a-zA-Z]

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

Character Class[a-zA-Z\d]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

a-zone character from a (97₁₀) to z (122₁₀) (case sensitive)

A-Zone character from A (65₁₀) to Z (90₁₀) (case sensitive)

\da digit

Character Class[~!@#$%^&*?<>]*

*matches any number of characters from the set below:

~the literal ~ (126₁₀ / 176₈ / 7E₁₆)

!the literal ! (33₁₀ / 41₈ / 21₁₆)

@the literal @ (64₁₀ / 100₈ / 40₁₆)

#the literal # (35₁₀ / 43₈ / 23₁₆)

$the literal $ (36₁₀ / 44₈ / 24₁₆)

%the literal % (37₁₀ / 45₈ / 25₁₆)

^the literal ^ (94₁₀ / 136₈ / 5E₁₆)

&the literal & (38₁₀ / 46₈ / 26₁₆)

*the literal * (42₁₀ / 52₈ / 2A₁₆)

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

$end of line

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

Search reference

Regular Expression

^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[~!@#$%^&*])[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\d]*[~!@#$%^&*?<>]*$

New

abAA1#
a123b#
a123B#$$
123aA##
#abcABC123#

Regular Expressions 101

Regular Expression

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