Regular Expressions 101

^start of line

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)

:the literal : (58₁₀ / 72₈ / 3A₁₆)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

windowsthe literal text windows (case sensitive)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

tempthe literal text temp (case sensitive)

\\the literal \ (92₁₀ / 134₈ / 5C₁₆)

Group 1(.*?){7,10}

{7,10}repeats the group contents below between 7 and 10 times:

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

\.the literal . (46₁₀ / 56₈ / 2E₁₆)

exethe literal text exe (case sensitive)

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

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25 tokens

Regular Expression

^[a-zA-Z]:\\windows\\temp\\(.*?){7,10}\.exe

New

c:\windows\temp\bob-1234.exe
c:\windows\temp\_yellow_po.exe ""
c:\windows\temp\pTUNE-UP8.exe ""

c:\windows\temp\bob-1234.exe
c:\windows\temp\_yellow_po.exe ""
c:\windows\temp\pTUNE-UP8.exe ""