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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • 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

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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"[^\s<>]+(?![^<]*>)"; string input = @"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"" ""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd""><html xmlns=""http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"" xml:lang=""en"" lang=""en""><head><meta http-equiv=""Content-Type"" content=""text/html;"" /><title>Email Newsletter</title></head><body style=""font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px""> <p><span style=""font-size:14px;""><span style=""font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"">Hi %%first_name%% - hope you can join us!<br> <br> <a href=""https://xfinityflowershow.rsvpify.com/""><img alt="" border=""0"" height=""525"" src=""http://go.pardot.com/l/292992/2019-02-26/3yvjz3/292992/83766/FlowerShow_Invite_V4.jpg"" style=""height: 525px; width: 700px; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;"" width=""700""></a><br> <br> Regards,<br> %%user_name%%<br> %%user_email%%<br> Comcast</span></span><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <span style=""font-size:10px;""><span style=""font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"">If&nbsp;you have received this communication in error or would like to unsubscribe, please&nbsp;click&nbsp;<a href=""%%unsubscribe%%"">here</a>.&nbsp;</span></span></p> </body></html>"; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.Multiline; foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(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