Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Quantifiers
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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 $str = '[so much data exists in the same single line ] ,"Comments": "New alert", "Data": "{\\"etype\\":\\"MalwareFamily\\",\\"at\\":\\"2024-06-21T11:34:07.0000000Z\\",\\"md\\":\\"2024-06-21T11:34:07.0000000Z\\",\\"Investigations\\":[{\\"$id\\":\\"1\\",\\"Id\\":\\"urn:ZappedUrlInvestigation:2cc87ae3\\",\\"InvestigationStatus\\":\\"Running\\"}],\\"InvestigationIds\\":[\\"urn:ZappedUrlInvestigation:2cc8782d063\\"],\\"Intent\\":\\"Probing\\",\\"ResourceIdentifiers\\":[{\\"$id\\":\\"2\\",\\"AadTenantId\\":\\"2dfb29-729c918\\",\\"Type\\":\\"AAD\\"}],\\"AzureResourceId\\":null,\\"WorkspaceId\\":null,\\"Metadata\\":{\\"CustomApps\\":null,\\"GenericInfo\\":null},\\"Entities\\":[{\\"$id\\":\\"3\\",\\"MailboxPrimaryAddress\\":\\"abc@gmail.com\\",\\"Upn\\":\\"abc@gmail.com\\",\\"AadId\\":\\"6eac3b76357\\",\\"RiskLevel\\":\\"None\\",\\"Type\\":\\"mailbox\\",\\"Urn\\":\\"urn:UserEntity:10338af2b6c\\",\\"Source\\":\\"TP\\",\\"FirstSeen\\":\\"0001-01-01T00:00:00\\"}, \\"StartTimeUtc\\": \\"2024-06-21T10:12:37\\", \\"Status\\": \\"Investigation Started\\"}", "EntityType": "MalwareFamily", [so much data exists in the same single line ]'; my $regex = qr/(("Data": ("){)(\\\".*){1,}(}("),))/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