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

Regular Expression
No Match

/
/
g

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use strict; my $str = '#EXTM3U #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="bipbop_audio",LANGUAGE="eng",NAME="BipBop Audio 1",AUTOSELECT=YES,DEFAULT=YES #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=AUDIO,GROUP-ID="bipbop_audio",LANGUAGE="eng",NAME="BipBop Audio 2",AUTOSELECT=NO,DEFAULT=NO,URI="alternate_audio_aac_sinewave/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="English",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="en",URI="subtitles/eng/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="English (Forced)",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=NO,FORCED=YES,LANGUAGE="en",URI="subtitles/eng_forced/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Français",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="fr",URI="subtitles/fra/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Français (Forced)",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=NO,FORCED=YES,LANGUAGE="fr",URI="subtitles/fra_forced/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Español",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="es",URI="subtitles/spa/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="Español (Forced)",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=NO,FORCED=YES,LANGUAGE="es",URI="subtitles/spa_forced/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="日本語",DEFAULT=YES,AUTOSELECT=YES,FORCED=NO,LANGUAGE="ja",URI="subtitles/jpn/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-MEDIA:TYPE=SUBTITLES,GROUP-ID="subs",NAME="日本語 (Forced)",DEFAULT=NO,AUTOSELECT=NO,FORCED=YES,LANGUAGE="ja",URI="subtitles/jpn_forced/prog_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=263851,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d400d",RESOLUTION=416x234,AUDIO="bipbop_audio",SUBTITLES="subs" gear1/prog_index.m3u8 #EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:URI="gear1/iframe_index.m3u8",CODECS="avc1.4d400d",BANDWIDTH=28451 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=577610,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d401e",RESOLUTION=640x360,AUDIO="bipbop_audio",SUBTITLES="subs" gear2/prog_index.m3u8 #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=915905,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=960x540,AUDIO="bipbop_audio",SUBTITLES="subs" gear3/prog_index.m3u8 #EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=297056,CODECS="avc1.4d401f",URI="gear3/iframe_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1030138,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=1280x720,AUDIO="bipbop_audio",SUBTITLES="subs" gear4/prog_index.m3u8 #EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=339492,CODECS="avc1.4d401f",URI="gear4/iframe_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=1924009,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.4d401f",RESOLUTION=1920x1080,AUDIO="bipbop_audio",SUBTITLES="subs" gear5/prog_index.m3u8 #EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=669554,CODECS="avc1.4d401f",URI="gear5/iframe_index.m3u8" #EXT-X-STREAM-INF:BANDWIDTH=41457,CODECS="mp4a.40.2",AUDIO="bipbop_audio",SUBTITLES="subs" gear0/prog_index.m3u8'; my $regex = qr/(?:#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:|#EXT-X-I-FRAME-STREAM-INF:)(?:BANDWIDTH=(?<BANDWIDTH>\d+),?|CODECS=(?<CODECS>"[^"]*"),?|RESOLUTION=(?<RESOLUTION>\d+x\d+),?|AUDIO=(?<AUDIO>"[^"]*"),?|SUBTITLES=(?<SUBTITLES>"[^"]*"),?|URI=(?<URI>"[^"]*"),?)*/p; 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