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

Regular Expression

/
/
g

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "[HDQhdq]2\d{8}" Local $sString = "# 配對身分證字號,用台灣縣市與男女做範例" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "# 題目說明區塊" & @CRLF & _ "請幫我找出桃園縣(H), 台南市(D), 嘉義縣(Q)中為女生的身分證字號" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "#欲測試資料集" & @CRLF & _ "A121040176" & @CRLF & _ "L186856359" & @CRLF & _ "Z127598010" & @CRLF & _ "I114537095" & @CRLF & _ "D279884447" & @CRLF & _ "L186834359" & @CRLF & _ "D243736345" & @CRLF & _ "I114537095" & @CRLF & _ "Q146110887" & @CRLF & _ "D187217314" & @CRLF & _ "I114537095" & @CRLF & _ "Q243556025" & @CRLF & _ "Z127598010" & @CRLF & _ "H250077453" & @CRLF & _ "Q188367037" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "# 應配對結果(亮色區塊)" & @CRLF & _ "D279884447" & @CRLF & _ "D243736345" & @CRLF & _ "Q243556025" & @CRLF & _ "H250077453" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "# (選項)寫上註解,好好說明你怎麼想的" & @CRLF & _ "就直覺想到就這樣寫了@@" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "# (選項)將你的 Regex 註解起來,使用 Extended Formating" & @CRLF & _ "/" & @CRLF & _ " [HDQhdq] # Match 可能為HDQhdq中任一個字元" & @CRLF & _ " 2 # Match 數字 2" & @CRLF & _ " \d{8} # Match 任意數字長度限定為8" & @CRLF & _ "/" & @CRLF & _ "" Local $aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sRegex, $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALFULLMATCH) Local $aFullArray[0] For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) -1 _ArrayConcatenate($aFullArray, $aArray[$i]) Next $aArray = $aFullArray ; Present the entire match result _ArrayDisplay($aArray, "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 AutoIt, please visit: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm