Regular Expressions 101

Explanation

Pro

Non-Capturing Group(?:\G|<saml:Attribute\s*+Name="example"[^\/>]*+>)

1st Alternative\G

\Gstart of current search

2nd Alternative<saml:Attribute\s*+Name="example"[^\/>]*+>

<saml:Attributethe literal text <saml:Attribute (case sensitive)

\s*+any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

Name="example"the literal text Name="example" (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^\/>]*+

*+matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:\s*+<saml:AttributeValue\s*+xsi:type="xs:string"[^\/>]*+>(?<value>[^<]*+)<\/saml:AttributeValue[^>]*+>|\s*+<[^\/][^\/>]*+>[^<]*+<\/[^>]*+>|\s*+<[^\/][^>\/]*+\/>)

1st Alternative\s*+<saml:AttributeValue\s*+xsi:type="xs:string"[^\/>]*+>(?<value>[^<]*+)<\/saml:AttributeValue[^>]*+>

\s*+any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

<saml:AttributeValuethe literal text <saml:AttributeValue (case sensitive)

\s*+any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

xsi:type="xs:string"the literal text xsi:type="xs:string" (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^\/>]*+

*+matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Group value(?<value>[^<]*+)

Negated Character Class[^<]*+

*+matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

saml:AttributeValuethe literal text saml:AttributeValue (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^>]*+

*+matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

2nd Alternative\s*+<[^\/][^\/>]*+>[^<]*+<\/[^>]*+>

\s*+any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\/]

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\/>]*+

*+matches any number of characters outside the set below:

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^<]*+

*+matches any number of characters outside the set below:

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^>]*+

*+matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

3rd Alternative\s*+<[^\/][^>\/]*+\/>

\s*+any whitespace character, repeated any number of times

<the literal < (60₁₀ / 74₈ / 3C₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^\/]

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

Negated Character Class[^>\/]*+

*+matches any number of characters outside the set below:

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

\/the literal / (47₁₀ / 57₈ / 2F₁₆)

>the literal > (62₁₀ / 76₈ / 3E₁₆)

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

s modifier: single line. Allows a dot to match line terminators

Match Information

Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.

Quick Reference

25 tokens

Regular Expression

(?:\G|<saml:Attribute\s*+Name="example"[^\/>]*+>)(?:\s*+<saml:AttributeValue\s*+xsi:type="xs:string"[^\/>]*+>(?<value>[^<]*+)<\/saml:AttributeValue[^>]*+>|\s*+<[^\/][^\/>]*+>[^<]*+<\/[^>]*+>|\s*+<[^\/][^>\/]*+\/>)

New

<samlp:Response xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol" xmlns:saml="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion" ID="_8e8dc5f69a98cc4c1ff3427e5ce34606fd672f91e6" Version="2.0" IssueInstant="2014-07-17T01:01:48Z" Destination="http://sp.example.com/demo1/index.php?acs" InResponseTo="ONELOGIN_4fee3b046395c4e751011e97f8900b5273d56685">
  <saml:Issuer>http://idp.example.com/metadata.php</saml:Issuer>
  <samlp:Status>
    <samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success"/>
  </samlp:Status>
  <saml:Assertion xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" ID="_d71a3a8e9fcc45c9e9d248ef7049393fc8f04e5f75" Version="2.0" IssueInstant="2014-07-17T01:01:48Z">
    <saml:Issuer>http://idp.example.com/metadata.php</saml:Issuer>
    <saml:Subject>
      <saml:NameID SPNameQualifier="http://sp.example.com/demo1/metadata.php" Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:nameid-format:transient">_ce3d2948b4cf20146dee0a0b3dd6f69b6cf86f62d7</