regex101: Python Match Workspace

^start of line

.*?any Unicode character (except for line terminators), repeated any number of times

"the literal " (34₁₀ / 42₈ / 22₁₆)

Non-Capturing Group(?:GET|POST)

1st AlternativeGET

GETthe literal text GET (case sensitive)

2nd AlternativePOST

POSTthe literal text POST (case sensitive)

the literal (32₁₀ / 40₈ / 20₁₆)

Group 1([^\s?]+)

Negated Character Class[^\s?]+

+matches at least one character outside the set below:

\sa Unicode whitespace character

?the literal ? (63₁₀ / 77₈ / 3F₁₆)

Global pattern flags

g modifier: global. Finds all matches instead of stopping after the first

m modifier: multiline. Causes ^ and $ to match the start and end of each line, not only the start and end of the string

Search reference

Regular Expression

^.*?"(?:GET|POST) ([^\s?]+)

New

    83.198.250.175 - - [22/Mar/2009:07:40:06 +0100] "GET /images/ht1.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 61 "http://www.facades.fr/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Wanadoo 6.7; Orange 8.0)" "-"

    65.33.94.190 - - [05/Apr/2003:17:26:27 -0500] "POST /samples/dem/tt.php?x=e2323 HTTP/1.0" 404 276

    151.227.152.48 - - [02/Jul/2014:14:35:55 +0100] "GET /css/main.css HTTP/1.1" 200 4658 "http://stanmore.menczykowski.co.uk/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/35.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36"

    10.143.2.119 64.103.161.112 - [06/Jan/1970:00:48:01 +0000] "GET /right_arrow.jpg HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "http://64.103.161.112/index_eth_diag.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.95 Safari/537.36"

Regular Expressions 101

Regular Expression

Substitution