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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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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]
  • Character class intersection
    [\w&&[^\d]]
  • 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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Generated Code

use strict; my $str = '/** * Analytic instance returned from initialization * @property identify - Identify a user * @property track - Track an analytics event * @property page - Trigger page view * @property user - Get user data * @property reset - Clear information about user & reset analytics * @property ready - Fire callback on analytics ready event * @property on - Fire callback on analytics lifecycle events. * @property once - Fire callback on analytics lifecycle events once. * @property getState - Get data about user, activity, or context. * @property storage - storage methods * @property plugins - plugin methods */ export interface AnalyticsInstance { identify: Identify; track: Track; page: Page; user: User; reset: Reset; ready: Ready; on: On; once: Once; getState: GetState; storage: Storage; plugins: Plugins; }; interface AnalyticsPluginBase { name: string; EVENTS?: any; config?: any; initialize?: (...params: any[]) => any; page?: (...params: any[]) => any; track?: (...params: any[]) => any; identify?: (...params: any[]) => any; loaded?: (...params: any[]) => any; ready?: (...params: any[]) => any; };'; my $regex = qr/interface (\w+)(\s+){([?\w\s\d:;()\[\]=>\.]*)};/mp; my $subst = 'interface $1$2{$3}'; my $result = $str =~ s/$regex/$subst/rg; print "The result of the substitution is' $result\n";

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