Regular Expressions 101

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  • 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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gu

Test String

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Generated Code

# If you'd like to omit non-matching lines from the result; add ';d' to the end of the expression. sed -E 's/(?:(if\s+)|\|\|\s*)(?<attrName>[\p{L}\p{N}_-]+)(?==")/$1 $<attrName>/gu;t' <<< "<if VERSION=\"A1\" || VERSION=\"A3\"||VERSION=\"a2_%5C%22A3\"> <assign CTA=\"blue\"></assign> <assign CTA2=\"green\"></assign> <assign TEXT1=\"Hello%3Cbr/%3EWorld\"></assign> <elseif attribute-name=\"A2\"> <assign CTA=\"red\"></assign> <assign CTA2=\"yellow\"></assign> <assign CTA3=\"brown\"></assign> <assign TEXT1=\"Click%20%3Ca%20href='https://example.com'%20style='text-decoration:none;color:#000000;'%3Ehere%3C/a%3E\"></assign> </if> // condition 2 <if FOO_BAR=\"A4\" || baz-biz=\"A5\"> <assign CTA=\"purple\"></assign> <assign CTA2=\"orange\"></assign> <assign TEXT1=\"Hi%20%3Cspan%20style='font-%20weight:bold;'%3EJohn%3C/span%3E\" TEXT2=\"Hello%3Cbr/%3EWorld\"></assign> </if> // condition 3 <if LANG=\"en_US\"> <assign TITLE=\"English\"></assign> </if>"

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 SED, please visit: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/The-_0022s_0022-Command.html