Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • 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
No Match

/
/
g

Test String

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Generated Code

using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"<(span).*?class=""\s*(?:.*\s)?target(?:\s[^""]+)?\s*""[^\>]*>(.*)<\/\1>"; string input = @"<p><img src=\""https://files.colektia.com/company_logos/1900910.png\""></p><p><br></p><p>Hola <span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""nombre_completo\""><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""nombre_completo\""><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""nombre\"">@nombre</span>_completo</span></span>,</p><p>Le contactamos para informarle que la cuota de su póliza <strong><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""referencia\""><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""referencia\"">@referencia</span></span></strong> con BCI Seguros venció el <strong><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""fecha_vencimiento\""><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""fecha_vencimiento\"">@fecha_vencimiento</span></span>.</strong></p><p>Puede regularizar el pago a través de las siguientes alternativas:</p><ol><li><p>En línea a través de nuestro portal <a href=\""https://www.bciseguros.cl/pagoenlinea/pagoCuota/\"" rel=\""noopener noreferrer nofollow\""><u>www.Bciseguros.cl</u></a></p></li><li><p>Pago en <a href=\""http://www.servipag.cl\"" rel=\""noopener noreferrer nofollow\""><u>www.servipag.cl</u></a></p></li><li><p>En Banco BCI, Banco de Chile, Banco Santander o en cualquier sucursal de Servipag a lo largo del país con su estado de cuenta.</p></li><li><p>Sucursales de BCI Seguros a lo largo del país.</p></li></ol><p>Atentamente,</p><p><em>Subgerencia de Cobranzas y Medios de Pago</em></p><p><em>Para cualquier consulta, puede comunicarse con nosotros al Centro de Respuesta Inmediata (CRI), desde teléfono fijo al 600 6000 292 o desde celulares al 22 6799700. pruebaaaaaa </em><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""monto\""><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""monto\"">@monto</span></span> <span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""moneda\""><span class=\""mention\"" data-mention-id=\""moneda\"">@moneda</span></span> </p><p><strong>Si al recibo de este correo usted ha regularizado esta situación, le solicitamos dejar sin efecto esta comunicación.</strong></p>"; foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(input, pattern)) { 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