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  • A single character of: a, b or c
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    a{3}
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    a{3,}
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    a{3,6}
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#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(?m)<.*?>(\d{1,2})<.*?>\s*<.*?>(.*?)<.*?>\s*<.*?>(.*?)<.*?>" Local $sString = "<head><title>Popular Baby Names</title>" & @CRLF & _ "<meta name="dc.language" scheme="ISO639-2" content="eng">" & @CRLF & _ "<meta name="dc.creator" content="OACT">" & @CRLF & _ "<meta name="lead_content_manager" content="JeffK">" & @CRLF & _ "<meta name="coder" content="JeffK">" & @CRLF & _ "<meta name="dc.date.reviewed" scheme="ISO8601" content="2006-03-10">" & @CRLF & _ "<link rel="stylesheet" href="../OACT/templatefiles/master.css" type="text/css" media="screen">" & @CRLF & _ "<link rel="stylesheet" href="../OACT/templatefiles/print.css" type="text/css" media="print">" & @CRLF & _ "</head>" & @CRLF & _ "<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" topmargin="1" leftmargin="0">" & @CRLF & _ "<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4">" & @CRLF & _ " <tbody>" & @CRLF & _ " <tr> " & @CRLF & _ " <td class="sstop" valign="bottom" align="left" width="25%">" & @CRLF & _ " Social Security Online" & @CRLF & _ " </td>" & @CRLF & _ " <td valign="bottom" class="titletext">" & @CRLF & _ " <!-- sitetitle -->Popular Baby Names" & @CRLF & _ " </td>" & @CRLF & _ " </tr>" & @CRLF & _ " <tr bgcolor="#333366"><td colspan="2" height="1"></td></tr>" & @CRLF & _ " <tr>" & @CRLF & _ " <td class="graystars" width="25%" valign="top">" & @CRLF & _ " <a href="../OACT/babynames/">Popular Baby Names</a></td>" & @CRLF & _ " <td valign="top"> " & @CRLF & _ " <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/"><img src="/templateimages/tinylogo.gif"" & @CRLF & _ " width="52" height="47" align="left"" & @CRLF & _ " alt="SSA logo: link to Social Security home page" border="0"></a>" & @CRLF & _ " <h1>Popular Names by Birth Year</h1>September 11, 2014</td>" & @CRLF & _ " </tr>" & @CRLF & _ "</tbody></table>" & @CRLF & _ "<script type="text/javascript" src="../OACT/babynames/chkinput.js"></script>" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" summary="formatting">" & @CRLF & _ " <tr valign="top">" & @CRLF & _ " <td width="25%" class="greycell">" & @CRLF & _ " <a href="../OACT/babynames/background.html">Background information</a>" & @CRLF & _ " <p><br />" & @CRLF & _ " &nbsp; Select another <label for="yob">year of birth</label>?<br />" & @CRLF & _ " <form name="popnames" method="post" action="/cgi-bin/popularnames.cgi"" & @CRLF & _ " onSubmit="return submitIt();">" & @CRLF & _ " &nbsp; <input type="text" name="year" id="yob" size="4" value="2012"><input type="hidden" name="top" value="25"><input type="hidden" name="number" value="">" & @CRLF & _ " &nbsp; <input type="submit" value=" Go "></form>" & @CRLF & _ " </td>" & @CRLF & _ " <td><p align="center"><table width="$tablewidth" border="1" bordercolor="#aaabbb" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Popularity for top 25">" & @CRLF & _ " <caption><h2>Popularity in 2012</h2></caption>" & @CRLF & _ " <tr align="center" valign="bottom">" & @CRLF & _ " <th scope="col" width="12%" bgcolor="#efefef">Rank</th>" & @CRLF & _ " <th scope="col" width="$colwidth" bgcolor="#99ccff">Male name</th>" & @CRLF & _ " <th scope="col" bgcolor="pink" width="41%">Female name</th></tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>1</td> <td>Jacob</td> <td>Sophia</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>2</td> <td>Mason</td> <td>Emma</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>3</td> <td>Ethan</td> <td>Isabella</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>4</td> <td>Noah</td> <td>Olivia</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>5</td> <td>William</td> <td>Ava</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>6</td> <td>Liam</td> <td>Emily</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>7</td> <td>Michael</td> <td>Abigail</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>8</td> <td>Jayden</td> <td>Mia</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>9</td> <td>Alexander</td> <td>Madison</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>10</td> <td>Aiden</td> <td>Elizabeth</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>11</td> <td>Daniel</td> <td>Chloe</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>12</td> <td>Matthew</td> <td>Ella</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>13</td> <td>Elijah</td> <td>Avery</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>14</td> <td>James</td> <td>Addison</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>15</td> <td>Anthony</td> <td>Aubrey</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>16</td> <td>Benjamin</td> <td>Lily</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>17</td> <td>Joshua</td> <td>Natalie</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>18</td> <td>Andrew</td> <td>Sofia</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>19</td> <td>Joseph</td> <td>Charlotte</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>20</td> <td>David</td> <td>Zoey</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>21</td> <td>Jackson</td> <td>Grace</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>22</td> <td>Logan</td> <td>Hannah</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>23</td> <td>Christopher</td> <td>Amelia</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>24</td> <td>Gabriel</td> <td>Harper</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr align="right">" & @CRLF & _ " <td>25</td> <td>Samuel</td> <td>Lillian</td>" & @CRLF & _ "</tr>" & @CRLF & _ "<tr><td colspan="3"><small>Note: Rank 1 is the most popular," & @CRLF & _ "rank 2 is the next most popular, and so forth. " & @CRLF & _ "</table></p>" & @CRLF & _ "</td></tr></table>" & @CRLF & _ "<table class="printhide" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0">" & @CRLF & _ " <tr bgcolor="#333366"><td height="1" colspan="2"></td></tr>" & @CRLF & _ " <tr>" & @CRLF & _ " <td width="26%" valign="middle">&nbsp;</td>" & @CRLF & _ " <td valign="top" class="seventypercent">" & @CRLF & _ " <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/privacy.html">Privacy Policy</a>&nbsp;" & @CRLF & _ " | <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/websitepolicies.htm">Website Policies" & @CRLF & _ " &amp; Other Important Information</a>&nbsp;" & @CRLF & _ " | <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/sitemap.htm">Site Map</a></td>" & @CRLF & _ " </tr>" & @CRLF & _ "</table>" & @CRLF & _ "</body></html>" Local $aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sRegex, $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALFULLMATCH) Local $aFullArray[0] For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) -1 _ArrayConcatenate($aFullArray, $aArray[$i]) Next $aArray = $aFullArray ; Present the entire match result _ArrayDisplay($aArray, "Result")

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 AutoIt, please visit: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm