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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
  • Match everything enclosed
    (?:...)
  • Capture everything enclosed
    (...)
  • 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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r"
"
gm

Test String

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Generated Code

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of MsgBox Local $sRegex = "(?m)("(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"|'(?:\\.|[^'\\])*'|(?:[^/\n"']|/[^/*\n"'])+|\n)|(/\* (?:[^*]|\*[^/])*\*/)|(?://(.*)$)$" Local $sString = "//Bienvenue sur ma carte!" & @CRLF & _ "//Par Samuel "Déjeuner d'aujourd'hui" Lapointe" & @CRLF & _ "MAP {" & @CRLF & _ " CONFIG: 'ON_MISSING_DATA' 'IGNORE'" & @CRLF & _ " ##CONFIG: "MS_ERRORFILE" "../debugFile.log"" & @CRLF & _ " CONFIG: 'PROJ_LIB' '../'" & @CRLF & _ " FONTSET: '../fonts.lst'" & @CRLF & _ " IMAGETYPE: png" & @CRLF & _ " MAXSIZE: 4000" & @CRLF & _ " SIZE: 800 800" & @CRLF & _ " UNITS: meters" & @CRLF & _ " EXTENT: -20405648.939901 -17712669.979681 20314497.045109 19408951.476421" & @CRLF & _ " IMAGECOLOR: '#C6E2F2'" & @CRLF & _ " SHAPEPATH: '../pdata/natural_earth/'" & @CRLF & _ " WEB {" & @CRLF & _ " METADATA {{" & @CRLF & _ " "ows_enable_request" "*"" & @CRLF & _ " "wms_srs" "EPSG:900913 EPSG:4326 EPSG:3857"" & @CRLF & _ " "labelcache_map_edge_buffer" "10"" & @CRLF & _ " "wms_title" "grid"" & @CRLF & _ " "wms_onlineresource" "http://mapserver.com:8081/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/opt/scribeui/workspaces/blabla.map" //Un lien!" & @CRLF & _ " }}" & @CRLF & _ " IMAGEPATH: '/tmp/ms_tmp/'" & @CRLF & _ " IMAGEURL: '/ms_tmp/'" & @CRLF & _ " }" & @CRLF & _ " DEBUG: 5" & @CRLF & _ " PROJECTION {{" & @CRLF & _ " "init=epsg:900913"" & @CRLF & _ " }}" & @CRLF & _ " INCLUDE: '../symbols.map'" & @CRLF & _ "}//C'est la fin!" & @CRLF & _ "" Local $sSubst = "\1" Local $sResult = StringRegExpReplace($sString, $sRegex, $sSubst) MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Result", $sResult)

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