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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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"\""apps\""\s+{\s+(\""(\d+)\""\s+\""\d+\""\s+)+\s+}"; string input = @"""libraryfolders"" { ""0"" { ""path"" ""C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam"" ""label"" "" ""contentid"" ""-4617057559629097284"" ""totalsize"" ""0"" ""update_clean_bytes_tally"" ""26071119336"" ""time_last_update_corruption"" ""0"" ""apps"" { ""228980"" ""419015490"" ""250820"" ""5600094877"" ""705900"" ""2514926917"" } } ""1"" { ""path"" ""N:\\SteamLibrary"" ""label"" "" ""contentid"" ""3764071818320917735"" ""totalsize"" ""1000186310656"" ""update_clean_bytes_tally"" ""225615218162"" ""time_last_update_corruption"" ""0"" ""apps"" { ""221680"" ""7000427217"" ""223750"" ""221071349004"" ""223850"" ""3121585480"" ""236390"" ""45325788243"" ""348250"" ""2996347031"" ""438100"" ""832697714"" ""450390"" ""16625763869"" ""546560"" ""72900756522"" ""578080"" ""35943596276"" ""667970"" ""2603561151"" ""690790"" ""117594033997"" ""1118240"" ""2213415708"" ""1174180"" ""128249349313"" ""1250410"" ""1865648550"" ""1255560"" ""9741578437"" ""1517290"" ""66609320436"" } } } "; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.Multiline; foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(input, pattern, options)) { Console.WriteLine("'{0}' found at index {1}.", m.Value, m.Index); } } }

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 C#, please visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex(v=vs.110).aspx