regex101: PCRE (Legacy) Match Workspace

Pro

^start of line

public the literal text public (case sensitive)

Negative Lookahead(?!delegate|event)

1st Alternativedelegate

delegatethe literal text delegate (case sensitive)

2nd Alternativeevent

eventthe literal text event (case sensitive)

Negated Character Class[^=\n{]*

*matches any number of characters outside the set below:

=the literal = (61₁₀ / 75₈ / 3D₁₆)

\na line-feed (newline) character (ASCII 10)

{the literal { (123₁₀ / 173₈ / 7B₁₆)

Positive Lookahead(?=;)

;the literal ; (59₁₀ / 73₈ / 3B₁₆)

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

25 tokens

Regular Expression

^public (?!delegate|event)[^=\n{]*(?=;)

New



      //MATCHES CORRECTLY
public string Country;
public string EmailAddress;
public string FirstName;
public string LastName;
public string PhoneNumber;
public string PostalCode;
public string State;
public List<Object> Example;

          //MATCHES BUT SHOULDNT
public event GetUserListCompletedEventHandler GetUserListCompleted;
public delegate void GetUserListCompletedEventHandler(object sender, GetUserListCompletedEventArgs e);

          //DOES NOT MATCH CORRECTLY
throw new Exception("In order to get the public date for blah blah blah");
public List<Order> orderDetails = new List<Order>();        
public string CustomerName { get; set; }
public string BillingAddress1 { get; set; }
public string BillingAddress2 { get; set; }