Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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 = 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: ... Server: ..... Set-Cookie: ....; Path=/; HttpOnly Set-Cookie: ...; Path=/; HttpOnly Content-Type: multipart/related; type="application/xop+xml"; boundary="uuid:0f7fa750-c317-4039-897a-a90685b00d29"; start="<...>"; start-info="text/xml" Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked --uuid:0f7fa750-c317-4039-897a-a90685b00d29 Content-Type: application/xop+xml; charset=UTF-8; type="text/xml"; Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-ID: <root.message@cxf.apache.org> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><ns2:downloadAttachResponse xmlns:ns2="http://..../"><return><errStr></errStr><result>0</result><contentFile><xop:Include xmlns:xop="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/xop/include" href="cid:c4d149e6-3f6a-4aa8-bd07-244c92bdc262-2@cxf.apache.org"/></contentFile></return></ns2:downloadAttachResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope> --uuid:0f7fa750-c317-4039-897a-a90685b00d29 Content-Type: application/octet-stream Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-ID: <c4d149e6-3f6a-4aa8-bd07-244c92bdc262-2@cxf.apache.org> %PDF-1.4 ... LOTS OF BINARY CODE HERE FOR THE PDF --uuid:0f7fa750-c317-4039-897a-a90685b00d29--" '; my $regex = qr`Content-ID:\h+<c4d149e6-3f6a-4aa8-bd07-244c92bdc262-2@cxf.apache.org>\R\s*((?:(?!--uuid).*\R)*)--uuid`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