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

Regular Expression
No Match

/
/

Test String

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use strict; my $str = ' MAIN LEVEL Entrance: 11 Living: 22 Dining: 333 Kitchen: 444 Family: 555 Bedrooms: 666 Den: 777 Full Bath: 888 Part Bath: 999 Laundry: 000 Other 1 Name: FuckMe Other 1 Count: 6969 Other 2 Name: Bsother2 Other 2 Count: 9696 Other 3 Name: 3 Other 3 Count: 2 SECOND LEVEL Entrance: 1111 Living: 2222 Dining: 3333 Kitchen: 4444 Family: 5555 Bedrooms: 6666 Den: 7777 Full Bath: 8888 Part Bath: 9999 Laundry: 0000 Other 1 Name: Bsother Other 1 Count: 4 Other 2 Name: Bsother2 Other 2 Count: 5 Other 3 Name: 3 Other 3 Count: 9 THIRD LEVEL Entrance: 3333 Living: 334 Dining: 3332 Kitchen: 33336 Family: 33332 Bedrooms: 33338 Den: 3331336 Full Bath: 363933 Part Bath: 3655733 Laundry: 335525 Other 1 Name: Bsother Other 1 Count: 2 Other 2 Name: Bsother2 Other 2 Count: 2 Other 3 Name: 3 Other 3 Count: 2 OTHER LEVEL Level Name: Basement Entrance: 1 Living: 1 Dining: 2 Kitchen: 1 Family: 1 Bedrooms: 1 Den: 1 Full Bath: 1 Part Bath: 1 Laundry: 1 '; my $regex = qr/(?:\bSECOND\sLEVEL(\n\s+.*)*Dining:)(.*\b)/p; if ( $str =~ /$regex/ ) { 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