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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

Regular Expression
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use strict; my $str = 'CEF:0|Forcepoint CASB|Cloud Service Monitoring|1.0|63575192763|Activity|0|act=Monitor app= cat=Normal Activity cs1= destinationServiceName=Office365 deviceExternalId= deviceFacility=true deviceProcessName=loadBalancers dhost= dpriv=User dst=0.0.0.0 duser=14dd43c6-a792-4c07-a33b-c5e561a129de dvc=10.1.2.12 dvchost=somedomain end=1600408516000 externalId=0 fsize=-1 msg=//United States/Unknown outcome=Success proto= reason=modify request= requestClientApplication=Unknown/Unknown/"" rt=1600408516000 sourceServiceName=Unmanaged src=someIP start=1600408516000 suser= cs2= cs3= cs5=false cs6= dproc=Unknown flexString1=mc_rg-int-qa-eus02_aks-int01-qa-eus02_eastus2,kubernetes-internal cs4=14dd43c6-a792-4c07-a33b-c5e561a129de flexString2= AD.ThreatRadarCategory= AD.TORNetworks= AD.MaliciousIPs= AD.AnonymousProxies= AD.IPChain=someIP AD.IPOrigin=External AD.samAccountName=14dd43c6-a792-4c07-a33b-c5e561a129de CEF:0|Forcepoint CASB|Cloud Service Monitoring|1.0|63575216734|Activity|0|act=Monitor app= cat=Normal Activity cs1= destinationServiceName=Office365 deviceExternalId= deviceFacility=false deviceProcessName= dhost= dpriv=User dst=0.0.0.0 duser=someuser_849fcb2777e9@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com dvc=10.1.2.12 dvchost=somedomain end=1600406172000 externalId=0 fsize=-1 msg=//United States/Unknown outcome=Success proto= reason=login request= requestClientApplication=Unknown/Unknown/"" rt=1600406172000 sourceServiceName=Unmanaged src=someIP start=1600406172000 suser= cs2= cs3= cs5=false cs6= dproc=Unknown flexString1= cs4=someaccount9@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com flexString2= AD.ThreatRadarCategory= AD.TORNetworks= AD.MaliciousIPs= AD.AnonymousProxies= AD.IPChain=someIP AD.IPOrigin=Internal AD.samAccountName=someaccount9@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com CEF:0|Forcepoint CASB|Cloud Service Monitoring|1.0|63575216736|Activity|0|act=Monitor app= cat=Normal Activity cs1= destinationServiceName=Office365 deviceExternalId= deviceFacility=true deviceProcessName= dhost= dpriv=User dst=0.0.0.0 duser=someaccount@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com dvc=10.1.2.12 dvchost=somedomain end=1600405713000 externalId=0 fsize=-1 msg=//United States/Unknown outcome=Success proto= reason=login request= requestClientApplication=Unknown/Unknown/"" rt=1600405713000 sourceServiceName=Unmanaged src=someIP start=1600405713000 suser= cs2= cs3= cs5=false cs6= dproc=Unknown flexString1= cs4=someaccount@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com flexString2= AD.ThreatRadarCategory= AD.TORNetworks= AD.MaliciousIPs= AD.AnonymousProxies= AD.IPChain=someIP AD.IPOrigin=External AD.samAccountName=someaccount@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com CEF:0|Forcepoint CASB|Cloud Service Monitoring|1.0|63575216738|Activity|0|act=Monitor app= cat=Normal Activity cs1= destinationServiceName=Office365 deviceExternalId= deviceFacility=false deviceProcessName= dhost= dpriv=User dst=0.0.0.0 duser=someaccount@somedomain.com dvc=10.1.2.12 dvchost=somedomain end=1600405674000 externalId=0 fsize=-1 msg=/1225/United States/Unknown outcome=Success proto= reason=login request= requestClientApplication=Unknown/Unknown/"" rt=1600405674000 sourceServiceName=Unmanaged src=someIP start=1600405674000 suser= cs2= cs3= cs5=false cs6= dproc=Unknown flexString1= cs4=someaccount flexString2= AD.ThreatRadarCategory= AD.TORNetworks= AD.MaliciousIPs= AD.AnonymousProxies= AD.IPChain=someIP AD.IPOrigin=Internal AD.samAccountName=someaccount CEF:0|Forcepoint CASB|Cloud Service Monitoring|1.0|63575216735|Activity|0|act=Monitor app= cat=Normal Activity cs1= destinationServiceName=Office365 deviceExternalId= deviceFacility=false deviceProcessName= dhost= dpriv=User dst=0.0.0.0 duser=someaccount9@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com dvc=10.1.2.12 dvchost=somedomain end=1600406165000 externalId=0 fsize=-1 msg=//United States/Unknown outcome=Success proto= reason=login request= requestClientApplication=Unknown/Unknown/"" rt=1600406165000 sourceServiceName=Unmanaged src=someIP start=1600406165000 suser= cs2= cs3= cs5=false cs6= dproc=Unknown flexString1= cs4=someaccount@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com flexString2= AD.ThreatRadarCategory= AD.TORNetworks= AD.MaliciousIPs= AD.AnonymousProxies= AD.IPChain=someIP AD.IPOrigin=Internal AD.samAccountName=someaccount@somedomain.onmicrosoft.com'; my $regex = qr/CEF:0.+[\r\n]?/mp; if ( $str =~ /$regex/g ) { print "Whole match is ${^MATCH} and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[0] and \$+[0]\n"; # print "Capture Group 1 is $1 and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[1] and \$+[1]\n"; # print "Capture Group 2 is $2 ... and so on\n"; } # ${^POSTMATCH} and ${^PREMATCH} are also available with the use of '/p' # Named capture groups can be called via $+{name}

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