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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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  • 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

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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"^.{4}[-""$%&*+:;=?{}a-zMZ]+.{4}$"; string input = @"<?="";$cr=""M""&""-"";$cr=""Z""&""*"";$zero=$one=$line=$text="";$zero++;$zero--;$a=$zero;s=""$zero""&""$"";$one=++$one;$five=$one+$one+$one+$one+$one;$ten=$five+$five;${""v$zero""}=""$s$s$s$s$s$s$s"";${""v$one""}=""$s$s$s$s$s$s"";${""v$ten""}=""$s$s$s$s$s"";$g=$argc-$one;$g=$argv{$one};$space=$zero;$p=${""v$space""};$dir=$one;a:++$a;$a%$ten?:$space++;$p=${""v$space""}??$p;$line=$dir?""$line$a"":""$a$line"";$line=$a%$g?$dir?""$line$p"":""$p$line"":""$line$cr"";$dir=$a%$g?$dir:$one-$dir;$text=$a%$g?$text:""$text$line"";$line=$a%$g?$line:"";echo$a-$g*$g?"":$text;$a-$g*$g?:exit;goto a?>"; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.Singleline; Match m = Regex.Match(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