Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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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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#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of MsgBox Local $sRegex = "(?sxX)#PostgreSQL v10+" & @CRLF & _ " (?<delimiter>; [;\s]*) #semicolon, followed by semicolons and spaces" & @CRLF & _ "| '(?>[^']+|'')*' #String Constants" & @CRLF & _ " | \b[Ee]'(?>[^\\']+|''|\\.)*' #String Constants With C-Style Escapes" & @CRLF & _ " | (?<stringDollarTag>\$[a-zA-Z\d_]*\$) #Dollar-Quoted String" & @CRLF & _ " [^$]*+ #speed improves" & @CRLF & _ " .*?" & @CRLF & _ " \k<stringDollarTag>" & @CRLF & _ "| "(?>[^"]+|"")*"" & @CRLF & _ "| #singe-line comment" & @CRLF & _ " (?<singeLineComment>-- [^\r\n]*+)" & @CRLF & _ "| #multi-line comment" & @CRLF & _ " (?<MutilineComment>" & @CRLF & _ " /\*" & @CRLF & _ " [^*/]*+" & @CRLF & _ " (?> [^*/]++" & @CRLF & _ " | \*[^/]" & @CRLF & _ " | /[^*]" & @CRLF & _ " | (?&MutilineComment)" & @CRLF & _ " )*+" & @CRLF & _ " \*/" & @CRLF & _ " )" Local $sString = "CREATE UNIQUE INDEX/*CONCUR-" & @CRLF & _ "RENTLY;*/IF NOT EXISTS custom_query_group_name_name_uindex " & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "ON public.custom_query_group_name (lower(name)); ; " & @CRLF & _ ";" & @CRLF & _ "--CREATE INDEX /*CONCURRENTLY;*/ IF NOT EXISTS custom_query_group_name_name_trigram_index ON public.custom_query_group_name USING GIN (lower(name) gin_trgm_ops);" & @CRLF & _ " ;" & @CRLF & _ " ;" & @CRLF & _ " ;" & @CRLF & _ "CREATE INDEX /*CONCURRENTLY*/ IF NOT EXISTS v3_company_name_trigram_index ON public.v3_company USING GIN (lower(name) gin_trgm_ops);" & @CRLF & _ " ;" & @CRLF & _ "-- PostgreSQL" & @CRLF & _ "$function$" & @CRLF & _ "BEGIN" & @CRLF & _ " RETURN ($1 ~ $q$[\t\r\n\v\\]$q$);" & @CRLF & _ "END;" & @CRLF & _ "$function$;" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "-- PostgreSQL" & @CRLF & _ "SELECT $$Жанна д'Арк$$, $SomeTag$Жанна д'Арк$SomeTag$;" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "SELECT 'abc\''\\def', "abc\""\\def";" & @CRLF & _ "SELECT 123;" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "" Local $sSubst = "$0" Local $sResult = StringRegExpReplace($sString, $sRegex, $sSubst) MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Result", $sResult)

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 AutoIt, please visit: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm