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

~
~
gm

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use strict; my $str = 'lo0 Description : lo0 Status : Up Interface Type : Loopback DHCP : Disabled MAC Address : 30-03-27-E3-3B-03 FQDD : Not Applicable IPv4 Address : 127.0.0.1 Subnet Mask : 255.0.0.0 vmk0 Description : vmnic0/Management Network/vmk0 Status : Up Interface Type : Ethernet DHCP : Enabled DHCPServerV4 : 100.98.65.10 MAC Address : 50-9A-4C-9C-99-8D FQDD : NIC.Embedded.1-1-1 IPv4 Address : 100.98.68.239 Subnet Mask : 255.255.252.0 IPv6 Address : fe80::529a:4cff:fe9c:998d Prefix Length : 64 IPv4 Gateway Address : 100.98.68.1 IPv4 DNSServer Address 0: 10.7.7.7 IPv4 DNSServer Address 1: 10.8.8.8 vmk1 Description : vusb0/iDRAC Network/vmk1 Status : Up Interface Type : Ethernet DHCP : Disabled MAC Address : 00-50-56-6E-6F-99 FQDD : Not Applicable IPv4 Address : 169.254.10.12 Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0 IPv6 Address : fe80::250:56ff:fe6e:6f99 Prefix Length : 64 IPv4 DNSServer Address 0: 10.7.7.7 IPv4 DNSServer Address 1: 10.8.8.8 vmk2 Description : vmnic1/iDRAC Network/vmk2 Status : Up Interface Type : Ethernet DHCP : Disabled MAC Address : 00-50-56-6E-6F-99 FQDD : Not Applicable IPv4 Address : 169.254.3.1 Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0 IPv6 Address : fe80::250:56ff:fe6e:6f99 Prefix Length : 64 IPv4 DNSServer Address 0: 10.7.8.9 IPv4 DNSServer Address 1: 10.3.2.1 racadm>>'; my $regex = qr~^Description\h*:\h*vusb0/iDRAC\h*Network/.*(?:.*\R)+?IPv4 Address\h+:\h*(\d{1,3}(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})~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