Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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 = '{ "_score": 1.0, "_index": "newsvit", "_source": { "content": " \\u0641\\u0647\\u06cc\\u0645\\u0647 \\u062d\\u0633\\u0646\\u200c\\u0645\\u06cc\\u0631\\u06cc: ", "title": "\\u06a9\\u0627\\u0631\\u0647\\u0627\\u06cc \\u0642\\u0627\\u0644\\u06cc\\u0628\\u0627\\u0641 ", "lead": "\\u062c\\u0627\\u0645\\u0639\\u0647&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;\\u0634\\u0647\\u0631\\u06cc - \\u0645\\u06cc\\u0632\\u06af\\u0631\\u062f\\u06cc \\u062f\\u0631\\u0628\\u0627\\u0631\\u0647 .", "agency": "13", "date_created": 1494518193, "url": "http://www.khabaronline.ir/(X(1)S(bud4wg3ebzbxv51mj45iwjtp))/detail/663749/society/urban", "image": "uploads/2017/05/11/1589793661.jpg", "category": "15" }, "_type": "news", "_id": "2981643" } { "_score": 1.0, "_index": "newsvit", "_source": { "content": "\\u0645/\\u0630", "title": "\\u0645\\u0639\\u0646\\u0648\\u06cc\\u062a \\u062f\\u0631 \\u0639\\u0635\\u0631 ", "lead": "\\u0645\\u062f\\u06cc\\u0631 \\u0645\\u0624\\u0633\\u0633\\u0647 \\u0639\\u0644\\u0645\\u06cc \\u0648 \\u067e\\u0698\\u0648\\u0647\\u0634\\u06cc \\u0627\\u0628\\u0646\\u200c\\u0633\\u06cc\\u0646\\u0627 \\u062f\\u0631 .", "agency": "1", "date_created": 1494521817, "url": "http://www.farsnews.com/13960221001386", "image": "uploads/2017/05/11/1713799235.jpg", "category": "20" }, "_type": "news", "_id": "2981951" } ....'; my $regex = qr/^\}$/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