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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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use strict; my $str = '.1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.3.308.0 = INTEGER: 3 varbind-delimiter .1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.3.304.0 = STRING: "Gray" varbind-delimiter .1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.3.305.0 = STRING: "Red" varbind-delimiter .1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.3.306.0 = STRING: "Virtual machine failover may have occurred_ - Event: vSphere HA restarted a virtual machine (20780030) Summary: vSphere HA restarted virtual machine i-13-130213-E3VM on host je22v-p01bvs25.shamrock.local in cluster je22v-p01b Date: 11/24/2021 4:01:07 PM VM: i-13-130213-E3VM Host: je22v-p01bvs25.shamrock.local Resource pool: je22v-p01b Data center: jp-east-22v Arguments: eventTypeId = com.vmware.vc.ha.VmRestartedByHAEvent objectId = vm-147534 objectName = i-13-130213-E3VM severity = warning " varbind-delimiter .1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.4.3.307.0 = STRING: "i-13-130213-E3VM"'; my $regex = qr/[^=]+\s=\s(?<value_v2c>.*?)(?=varbind-delimiter|$)/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