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
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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"<table class=""clubs"">(.*?)</table>"; string input = @"<div class=""box"" style=""padding:0px;""> <div class=""box-heading"" align=""center"" style=""padding-top:2px; height:15px;"">OUR CLUBS</div> <div class=""box-content"" style=""padding:0px 10px 0px 10x;margin:0px;""> <table class=""clubs""> <tr> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/Everton-tickets"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/data/everton.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#265da0;"">Everton</span></a> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/Manchester-United-Tickets"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/clubs/manchester-united.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#f20000;"">Man United</span></a></td> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/Chelsea"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/clubs/chelsea.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#003487;"">Chelsea</span></a></td> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/Arsenal"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/clubs/arsenal.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#d70127;"">Arsenal</span></a></td> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/Manchester-City"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/clubs/manchester-city.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#177389;"">Man City</span></a></td> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/Liverpool"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/clubs/liverpool.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#ba0109;"">Liverpool</span></a></td> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/Tottenham-hotspur-tickets"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/data/tottenham.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#102654;"">Tottenham</span></a></td> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/barcelona"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/data/barcela.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#a20045;"">Barcelona</span></a></td> <td width=""11%"" align=""center"" height=""130""><a href=""https://myticketsonline.eu/real-madrid"" rel=""nofollow""><img src=""image/data/realmadrid.jpg"" border=""0"" width=""57""><br><br> <span class=""candara_bold"" style=""font-size:15px;color:#17377f;"">Real Madrid</span></a></td></tr> </table> </div> </div>"; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.Singleline; foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(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