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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • 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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/
/
gm

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use strict; my $str = 'IN=pppoe0 OUT= MAC= SRC=45.134.26.235 DST=51.148.135.105 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=244 ID=21599 PROTO=TCP SPT=41497 DPT=33241 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 IN=eth1 OUT=eth1.20 MAC=fc:ec:da:47:47:e6:b4:2e:99:19:8e:79:08:00 SRC=10.231.1.21 DST=10.231.20.5 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=22819 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=58474 DPT=8123 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 IN=eth1.40 OUT=eth1 MAC=fc:ec:da:47:47:e6:ea:5e:e5:92:bd:3d:08:00:45:00:00:46 SRC=10.231.40.108 DST=10.231.1.22 LEN=70 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=58349 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=58673 DPT=53 LEN=50 IN=pppoe0 OUT= MAC= SRC=37.120.166.236 DST=51.148.135.105 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=52 ID=27591 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=35990 DPT=18080 WINDOW=29200 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0'; my $regex = qr/IN=(?P<source_interface>(\S+|\s?)) OUT=(?P<forward_interface>(\S+|\s?)) MAC=(?P<source_mac>(\S+|\s?)) SRC=(?P<source_ip>(?:([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3})) DST=(?P<destination_ip>(?:([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3})) LEN=(?P<pkt_len>\d+) TOS=(?P<pkt_tos>[\dx\d]+) PREC=(?P<pkt_prec>[\dx\d]+) TTL=(?P<pkt_ttl>\d+) ID=(?P<pkt_id>\d+)\s?(?P<pk_frg>[A-Z\s].?)\s?PROTO=(?P<pkt_protocol>[\w\d]+) SPT=(?P<source_port>\d+) DPT=(?P<dest_port>\d+) (LEN=(?P<pkt_length>\d+))?(WINDOW=(?P<pkt_window>\d+) RES=(?P<pkt_res>[\dx\d]+)? (?P<pkt_type>(\S+))?\s?(URGP=(?P<pkt_urgency>\d))?)?/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