Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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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
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/
/
g

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import Foundation let pattern = #""[^"]*"|\S+"# let regex = try! NSRegularExpression(pattern: pattern) let testString = #"2018-04-16T08:09:27.203Z cae70dd2-414c-11e8-836a-354cb4985a41 https 2018-04-15T01:20:31.092381Z app/MBM-L-Publi-V9D386A91UNR/4695f2e72859f540 128.121.50.133:59367 10.0.1.14:80 0.001 0.003 0.000 200 200 934 282 "GET https://www.domain.tld:443/__utm.gif?v=1&_v=j66&a=1866784098&t=pageview&_s=1&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.tld%2Fnews%2Farchived%2Fresources-archived%22001-11%2F&ul=en-us&de=UTF-8&dt=Racal%20reborn%20after%20Thales%20buyout&sd=24-bit&sr=412x732&vp=404x732&je=0&cid=1296878891.1495497600&_gid=1908154735.1495497600&_r=1&z=821631926 HTTP/1.1" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 TLSv1.2 arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:eu-west-2:123456789012:targetgroup/MBM-L-Cache-1LH0DNU489D55/167e4810f75804c3 "Root=1-5ad2a8df-021aaad5031047e7dec3f2fa" "www.domain.tld" "arn:aws:acm:eu-west-2:123456789012:certificate/1140cbb2-4d4f-44b0-a4d9-a79329c5e361" 0"# let stringRange = NSRange(location: 0, length: testString.utf16.count) let matches = regex.matches(in: testString, range: stringRange) var result: [[String]] = [] for match in matches { var groups: [String] = [] for rangeIndex in 1 ..< match.numberOfRanges { let nsRange = match.range(at: rangeIndex) guard !NSEqualRanges(nsRange, NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0)) else { continue } let string = (testString as NSString).substring(with: nsRange) groups.append(string) } if !groups.isEmpty { result.append(groups) } } print(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 Swift 5.2, please visit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsregularexpression