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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Quantifiers
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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

Regular Expression
No Match

/
/
gm

Test String

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use strict; my $str = 'Change 193745 by mnghiem@vanquan__VIETW462__ROM on 2020/05/13 06:08:50 :\\thuy_unreal\\ROM Client stream: //Romeo/virtuosSubmit Current directory: c:\\Users\\thuy.nguyen Peer address: 192.1 [Lighting] Virtuos updated bake light for seq030 4/1/root Server date: 2020/05/20 04:29:58 -0500 CDT Server uptime: 821:40:43 Server version: P4D/LINUX26X86_64/201 Affected files ... crypted Broker cert expires: Apr 3 20:48:58 2022 GMT Broker version: P4BROKER/LINUX26X86_64/2020.1/1953492 Broker ... //Romeo/main/UnrealEngine/Project/Content/CinematicDemo/SubLevels/Lighting/CDemo_ESP_sq030_1:25:01 2022 GMT Broker version: P4BROKER/LINUX26X86_64/2019.2/1897966 Proxy address: P4ROM:1667 Proxy version: P4LGT.umap#16 edit 021/02/24) (expires 2020/06/14) Server license-ip: 192.168.3.4:2003 Case Handling: sensitive ... //Romeo/main/UnrealEngine/Project/Content/CinematicDemo/SubLevels/Lighting/CDemo_ESP_sq030_LGT_BuiltData.uasset#9 edit 5_050/sq035_050_LGT.uasset#12 edit Differences ... ==== //Romeo/main/UnrealEngine/Project/Content/CinematicDemo/SubLevels/Lighting/CDemo_ESP_sq030_LGT.umap#16 (binary+l) ==== 0/sq030_LGT.uasset#18 edit ==== //Romeo/main/UnrealEngine/Project/Content/CinematicDemo/SubLevels/Lighting/CDemo_ESP_sq030_LGT_BuiltData.uasset#9 (binary+l) ===='; my $regex = qr/(Change )(.*)( on)|(^\.\.\.)(.*)/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