Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • Substitution
  • 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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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"(?:.*?^0\,){1}"; string input = @"""REC01"", ""Recipe1"", 10, "", "", "" "", 2000, ""0101"", "" "", "" "", ""126"", ""REC01"", "" "", 0, 0, 5, 38.182,""11200"",""Ingredient1"","" "","" "",""1"", 12.121,""11800"",""Ingredient2"","" "","" "",""1"", 27.475,""30910"",""Ingredient3"","" "","" "",""1"", 2.020,""26200"",""Ingredient4"","" "","" "",""1"", 20.202,""C01"",""Ingredient5"","" "","" "",""1"", 0, ""REC02"", ""Recipe2"", 10, ""13/04/21"", ""13/04/21"", "" "", 1000, ""0101"", "" "", "" "", ""17"", ""REC02"", "" "", 0, 0, 3, 61.600,""11200"",""Ingredient1"","" "","" "",""1"", 23.400,""30910"",""Ingredient3"","" "","" "",""1"", 15.000,""BR-F01"",""Ingredient6"","" "","" "",""1"", 0, ""REC03"", ""Recipe3"", 10, ""19/03/21"", ""19/03/21"", "" "", 1000, ""0103"", "" "", "" "", ""28"", ""REC03"", "" "", 0, 0, 9, 64.450,""11200"",""Ingredient1"","" "","" "",""1"", 12.700,""30910"",""Ingredient3"","" "","" "",""1"", 2.000,""20600"",""Ingredient7"","" "","" "",""1"", 12.000,""27220"",""Ingredient8"","" "","" "",""1"", 0.320,""584"",""Ingredient9"","" "","" "",""1"", 0.830,""588"",""Ingredient10"","" "","" "",""1"", 0.050,""599"",""Ingredient11"","" "","" "",""1"", 0.040,""600"",""Ingredient12"","" "","" "",""1"", 7.610,""585"",""Ingredient13"","" "","" "",""1"", 0,"; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.Multiline; foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(input, pattern, options)) { Console.WriteLine("'{0}' found at index {1}.", m.Value, m.Index); } } }

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 C#, please visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex(v=vs.110).aspx