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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]
  • 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 <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(?m)sans-serif; color:black\">(.?)" Local $sString = "age email" & @CRLF & _ "33 </style></head><body lang="EN-IN"link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">. " & @CRLF & _ " <divclass="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font- " & @CRLF & _ " family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif; color:black">Iam not interested. " & @CRLF & _ " Please unsubscribe me.&nbsp;</span></p><pclass="MsoNormal">" & @CRLF & _ " <spanstyle="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">&nbsp;" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "22 </style></head><body lang="EN-IN"link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> " & @CRLF & _ " <divclass="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font- " & @CRLF & _ " family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Please share company " & @CRLF & _ " details</span></p><divclass="MsoNormal" align="center"style="text- " & @CRLF & _ " align:center"><hr size="2"width="98%" align="center"></div> " & @CRLF & _ " <pclass="MsoNormal">" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "43 </style></head><body lang="EN-IN"link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> " & @CRLF & _ " <divclass="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><spanstyle="font- " & @CRLF & _ " family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Can you send " & @CRLF & _ " some project info for west region ofIndia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> " & @CRLF & _ " <spanstyle="font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "38 </style></head><bodylang="EN-IN" link="#0563C1"vlink="#954F72"><div " & @CRLF & _ " class="WordSection1"><pclass="MsoNormal"><span style="font- " & @CRLF & _ " family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Price of Mono perc</span> " & @CRLF & _ " </p><divclass="MsoNormal" align="center"style="text-align:center"><hr " & @CRLF & _ " size="2"width="98%" align="center"></div><pclass="MsoNormal"><b>" Local $aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sRegex, $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALFULLMATCH) Local $aFullArray[0] For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) -1 _ArrayConcatenate($aFullArray, $aArray[$i]) Next $aArray = $aFullArray ; Present the entire match result _ArrayDisplay($aArray, "Result")

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