Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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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

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import Foundation let pattern = #"ERROR\s+(?<error>.*)"# let regex = try! NSRegularExpression(pattern: pattern, options: .anchorsMatchLines) let testString = #"03 Mar 2022 10:08:18,188 GMT ERROR [dbdiNotificationService,ServiceManagement] {} - Caught Runtime exception at service dbdiNotificationService java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No enum constant com.db.fx4capi.Fx4cApiLocal.TradeProcessingStatus.TRADE_STATUS_CANCELLED at java.lang.Enum.valueOf(Enum.java:238) ~[?:1.8.0_311] at com.db.fx4capi.Fx4cApiLocal$TradeProcessingStatus.valueOf(Fx4cApiLocal.java:10) ~[trade-22.1.1-8.jar:?] at com.db.fx4cash.trade.step.GetTradeReferenceAndStatusStep.step(GetTradeReferenceAndStatusStep.java:24) ~[step-22.1.1-8.jar:?] at com.db.servicemanagement.TransactionDispatchService.executeIteration(TransactionDispatchService.java:275) [servicemanagement-22.1.1-8.jar:?] at com.db.servicemanagement.TransactionDispatchService.startDispatch(TransactionDispatchService.java:673) [servicemanagement-22.1.1-8.jar:?] at com.db.servicemanagement.TransactionDispatchService.run(TransactionDispatchService.java:91) [servicemanagement-22.1.1-8.jar:?] at com.db.servicemanagement.ServiceThread.run(ServiceThread.java:36) [servicemanagement-22.1.1-8.jar:?] at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_311]"# let stringRange = NSRange(location: 0, length: testString.utf16.count) let matches = regex.matches(in: testString, range: stringRange) var result: [[String]] = [] for match in matches { var groups: [String] = [] for rangeIndex in 1 ..< match.numberOfRanges { let nsRange = match.range(at: rangeIndex) guard !NSEqualRanges(nsRange, NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0)) else { continue } let string = (testString as NSString).substring(with: nsRange) groups.append(string) } if !groups.isEmpty { result.append(groups) } } print(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 Swift 5.2, please visit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsregularexpression