Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
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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 = '"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" } } } '; my $regex = qr/\"apps\"\s+{\s+(\"(\d+)\"\s+\"\d+\"\s+)+\s+}/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