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

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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"# # Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6556559/youtube-api-extract-video-id # Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8QuLYXKNCg&rel=0&autoplay=1 # # Match any youtube URL (?:https?://)? # Optional scheme. Either http or https (?:www\.)? # Optional www subdomain (?: # Group host alternatives youtu\.be/ # Either youtu.be, | youtube\.com # or youtube.com (?: # Group path alternatives /embed/ # Either /embed/ | /v/ # or /v/ | /watch\?v= # or /watch\?v= ) # End path alternatives. )? # End host alternatives. ([\w-]{10,12}) # Allow 10-12 for 11 char youtube id. (?:[&?](.*)) # Optional Parameters $"; string input = @"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8QuLYXKNCg&rel=0&autoplay=1&autoplay=2&autoplay=3&autoplay=4"; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace; Match m = Regex.Match(input, pattern, options); Console.WriteLine("'{0}' found at index {1}", m.Value, m.Index); } }

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 C#, please visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex(v=vs.110).aspx