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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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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 = '| Link | Cloudflare | Country | ISP | Branch | | -------- | ---------- | ----------- | ----- | ----- | | [gh.akisblack.dev](https://gh.akisblack.dev) | No | Germany | OVHcloud | master | | [gothub.esmailelbob.xyz](https://gothub.esmailelbob.xyz) | No | Canada | OVHcloud | master | | [gothub.no-logs.com](https://gothub.no-logs.com/) | No | Sweden | Vultr | master | | [gh.odyssey346.dev](https://gh.odyssey346.dev) | No | France | OVHcloud (Trolling Solutions) | master | | [gh.phreedom.club](https://gh.phreedom.club) | No | Iceland | Flokinet | master | | [gothub.projectsegfau.lt](https://gothub.projectsegfau.lt) | No | GeoDNS (Luxembourg/USA/India) | BuyVM/Digital Ocean/Airtel | master | | [gh.riverside.rocks](https://gh.riverside.rocks) | No | USA | Comcast | master | | [gh.fascinated.cc](https://gh.fascinated.cc) | Yes | Germany | Contabo | master | | [gothub.lunar.icu](https://gothub.lunar.icu) | Yes | Germany | Unesty | master | | [gothub.xbdm.fun](https://gothub.xbdm.fun) | Yes | Germany | Hetzner | master | | [dev.gh.akisblack.dev](https://dev.gh.akisblack.dev) | No | Germany | OVHcloud | dev | | [gh.creller.net](https://gh.creller.net) | No | Scotland | British Telecommunications PLC | dev | | [gh.dev.odyssey346.dev](https://gh.dev.odyssey346.dev) | No | France | OVHcloud (Trolling Solutions) | dev | | [gothub.dev.projectsegfau.lt](https://gothub.dev.projectsegfau.lt) | No | Luxembourg | BuyVM | dev |'; my $regex = qr/\|\s+\[(?P<domain>(?:[^\|]|\\\|)+)\]\((?P<url>https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?[^\)]+)\)\s+\|\s+(?P<cloudflare>(?:[^\|]|\\\|)+)\s+\|\s+(?P<country>(?:[^\|]|\\\|)+)\s+\|\s+(?P<isp>(?:[^\|]|\\\|)+)\s+\|\s+(?P<branch>(?:[^\|]|\\\|)+)\|/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