Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • 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

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gm

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import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Example { public static void main(String[] args) { final String regex = "request=\"(?<Flag1>[A-Z]+\\s+(?<Flag2>\\/\\S+='[^']*')[^\"]*)\""; final String string = "Aug 25 03:07:19 localhost.localdomainASM:unit_hostname=\"bigip1\",management_ip_address=\"192.168.41.200\",management_ip_address_2=\"N/A\",http_class_name=\"/Common/log_to_elk_policy\",web_application_name=\"/Common/log_to_elk_policy\",policy_name=\"/Common/log_to_elk_policy\",policy_apply_date=\"2020-08-10 06:50:39\",violations=\"HTTP protocol compliance failed\",support_id=\"5666478231990524056\",request_status=\"blocked\",response_code=\"0\",ip_client=\"10.43.0.86\",route_domain=\"0\",method=\"GET\",protocol=\"HTTP\",query_string=\"name='\",x_forwarded_for_header_value=\"N/A\",sig_ids=\"N/A\",sig_names=\"N/A\",date_time=\"2020-08-25 03:07:19\",severity=\"Eror\",attack_type=\"Non-browser Client,HTTP Parser Attack\",geo_location=\"N/A\",ip_address_intelligence=\"N/A\",username=\"N/A\",session_id=\"0\",src_port=\"39348\",dest_port=\"80\",dest_ip=\"10.43.0.201\",sub_violations=\"HTTP protocol compliance failed:Bad HTTP version\",virus_name=\"N/A\",violation_rating=\"5\",websocket_direction=\"N/A\",websocket_message_type=\"N/A\",device_id=\"N/A\",staged_sig_ids=\"\",staged_sig_names=\"\",threat_campaign_names=\"N/A\",staged_threat_campaign_names=\"N/A\",blocking_exception_reason=\"N/A\",captcha_result=\"not_received\",microservice=\"N/A\",tap_event_id=\"N/A\",tap_vid=\"N/A\",vs_name=\"/Common/adv_waf_vs\",sig_cves=\"N/A\",staged_sig_cves=\"N/A\",uri=\"/random\",fragment=\"\",request=\"GET /random?name=' or 1 = 1' HTTP/1.1\\r\\n\",response=\"Response logging disabled\"\n"; final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.MULTILINE); final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string); while (matcher.find()) { System.out.println("Full match: " + matcher.group(0)); for (int i = 1; i <= matcher.groupCount(); i++) { System.out.println("Group " + i + ": " + matcher.group(i)); } } } }

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 Java, please visit: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html