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

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use strict; my $str = 'I really like to go to google.com and google stuff. <br> I also like http://hercdev.io, both are pretty cool! http://google.com <br> This is the url to an image: https://objects.dreamhost.com/herc-scripts/chicken_sombrero.gif <br> But this is the actual image: <img src="https://objects.dreamhost.com/herc-scripts/chicken_sombrero.gif" style="max-width: 100px;" /> <br> Note that the url to the image in the &lt;img&gt; tag is unaffected. This is true for things that are already links also, like <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">this.</a>'; my $regex = qr/(?:^|\ |\n)(((?:(?:http(?:s)?\:)?(?:\/\/))|(?:\/\/))?(?:(?=[a-z0-9\-\.]{1,255}(?=\/|\ |$|\:|\n|\?|\,|\!))(?:(?:(?:[a-z0-9]{1}(?:[a-z0-9\-]{1,62})?\.){1,127})[a-z]{2,}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?))(?:[a-z0-9\/\-\_\%\?\&\!\$\'\,\(\)\*\.\+\=\;])*?)(?=$|\.(?=\ |$)|\:|\n|\ |\?(?=\ |$)|\,|\!)/ip; my $subst = '<a href="$1">$1</a>'; my $result = $str =~ s/$regex/$subst/rg; print "The result of the substitution is' $result\n";

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 Perl, please visit: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html