Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • 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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gm

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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @",""sql_queries"":"".*?,"""; string substitution = @" "; string input = @"{""method"":""GET"",""path"":""/REDACTED"",""format"":""json"",""controller"":""REDACTED"",""action"":""validate_token"",""status"":200,""duration"":30.26,""view"":2.67,""db"":5.88,""pid"":10109,""sql_queries"":""' = 65593\nUser Load (0.86) SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` WHERE `users`.`id` 3:59:58', `tokens` = '{\\\""REDACTED\\\"":{\\\""token\\\"":\\\""REDACTED/W\\\"",\\\""expiry\\\"":1550795150},\\\""REDACTED\\\"":{\\\""token\\\"":\\\""REDACTED/\\\"",\\\""expiry\\\"":1550795151},\\\""REDACTED\\\"":{\\\""token\\\"":\\\REDACTED\\"",\\\""expiry\\\"":1550795151},\\\""REDACTED\\\"":{\\\""token\\\"":\\\""REDACTED\\\"",\\\""expiry\\\"":1550795152},\\\""REDACTED\\\"":{\\\""token\\\"":\\\""$REDACTED\\\"",\\\""expiry\\\"":1550795152},\\\""REDACTED-g\\\"":{\\\""token\\\"":\\\""$REDACTED\\\"",\\\""expiry\\\"":1550795153},\\\""REDACTED\\\"":{\\\""token\\\"":\\\""REDACTED\\\"",\\\""expiry\\\"":1550795154},\\\""REDACTED\\\"":{\\\""token\\\"":\\\""REDACTED\\\"",\\\""expiry\\\"":1550800798}}' WHERE `users`.`id` = 65593\n (0.98) COMMIT'"",""@timestamp"":""2019-02-21T23:59:58.015Z"",""@version"":""1"",""message"":""[200] GET / ""}"; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.Multiline; Regex regex = new Regex(pattern, options); string result = regex.Replace(input, substitution); } }

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 C#, please visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex(v=vs.110).aspx