Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
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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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/
/
g

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use strict; my $str = '2016-10-25 12:33:31,926 [http-00000:13111-2] INFO [org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingInInterceptor ?] Inbound Message ---------------------------- ID: 18 Response-Code: 200 Encoding: UTF-8 Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8 Headers: {content-type=[application/json;charset=UTF-8], Date=[Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:33:30 GMT], Expires=[Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT], Set-Cookie=[BrowserId=L8p9Eij0T4Sfp-INSP9zDw;Path=/;Domain=.salesforce;Expires=Sat, 24-Dec-2016 17:33:30 GMT], transfer-encoding=[chunked]} Payload: {"responseCode":"201","messageId":"704c8163-13d4-42b8-a684-94b9d23e849e", "lead":[{"responseCode":"201","leadID":null,"errors":[{"errorField":"head","errorDescription":"The value of email is invalid.","errorCode":"Value_Invalid_E400"},{"errorField":"bestTimeToContact","errorDescription":"The value of bestTimeToContact is invalid.","errorCode":"Value_Invalid_E400"}]}]} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2016-10-25 12:33:31,986 [http-000000:13111-2] INFO [org.apache.cxf.interceptor.LoggingOutInterceptor ?] Outbound Message --------------------------- ID: 17 Response-Code: 200 Content-Type: application/json Headers: {Content-Type=[application/json], Date=[Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:33:31 GMT]} Payload: {"errors":[{"errorCode":"Value_Invalid_E400","errorDescription":"The value of email is invalid.","errorField":"head"},{"errorCode":"Value_Invalid_E400","errorDescription":"The value of bestTimeToContact is invalid.","errorField":"bestTimeToContact"}]} --------------------------------------'; my $regex = qr/errorDescription\"\:\"(?<errorDescription>[^\"]+).+errorCode\"\:\"(?<errorCode>[^\"]+)/p; 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