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  • All Tokens
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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

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#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of MsgBox Local $sRegex = "(?m)(?<=[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]|^)([A-Za-z]{2,10}-\d{1,6})(?=[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]|$)" Local $sString = "Merge pull request #2 in PAY/email-api from APP-8755-error to master" & @CRLF & _ "APP-8755 - fixup error handling" & @CRLF & _ "[RN] APP-8827 - Hooks up to email service" & @CRLF & _ "Merge pull request #157 in EUE-API/eue-api-dwp-service from EE-31627 to master" & @CRLF & _ "[EE-32070] Same logging work for TraceAllocate" & @CRLF & _ "Merge branch 'tag/candidate-develop-umbrella-2.17.2-20200429160812' into release" & @CRLF & _ "Merge pull request #177 in EUE-CW1/ipt-sp-appmsg-hops-listener from ORCH-642 to develop" & @CRLF & _ "ORCH-642 extended unit tests" & @CRLF & _ "ORCH-643 hello" & @CRLF & _ "[NG] testing FBISC-4612 does it correctly regex FBISC-542." & @CRLF & _ "[NG] testing FBISC-4612 does it correctly regex FBISC-542655" & @CRLF & _ "Revert APP-7491: Feign Retry with exception Mapping" & @CRLF & _ "Revert APP-7449" & @CRLF & _ ""[NG] testing FBISC-4612 does it correctly regex FBISC-542."" 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