Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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

Regular Expression
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r"
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sg

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

const regex = new RegExp('((?:[A-Z-][ ]){9,}[A-Z])\\s+([A-Z \\n\\',.-]+)\\b(?![A-Z]+(?=\\.))\\b(?![a-z\\']|[A-Z.])(.*?)(?=(?:[A-Z][ ]){9,}|This book \\n)', 'sg') const str = `This is some introduction text. Here's the table of contents: ONE The Boy Who Lived &middot; 1 TWO The Vanishing Glass &middot; 18 THREE The Letters from No One &middot; 31 FOUR The Keeper of the Keys &middot; 46 C H A P T E R O N E THE BOY WHO LIVED Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. &bull; 1 &bull; CHAPTER ONE He couldn&rsquo;t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: &ldquo;To Harry Potter &mdash; the boy who lived!&rdquo; &bull; 17 &bull; C H A P T E R E X A M P L E IT'S A NEW CHAPTER WITH. SEVERAL, EDGE-CASES EDGECASE. The chapter continues... C H A P T E R T W O THE VANISHING GLASS Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys Everybody knew that Dudley&rsquo;s gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley&rsquo;s gang. &bull; 30 &bull; C H A P T E R T H R E E THE LETTERS FROM NO ONE The escape of the Brazilian boa constrictor earned with Dudley this summer. . . .&rdquo; &bull; 309 &bull; This book was art directed by David Saylor and designed by Becky Terhune. The art for both the jacket and interior was created using pastels on toned printmaking paper. The text was set in 12-point Adobe Garamond, a typeface based on the sixteenth- century type designs of Claude Garamond redrawn by Robert Slimbach in 1989. The book was printed and bound at RR Donnelley & Sons, Willard, Oh. The production was supervised by Angela Biola `; // Reset `lastIndex` if this regex is defined globally // regex.lastIndex = 0; let m; while ((m = regex.exec(str)) !== null) { // This is necessary to avoid infinite loops with zero-width matches if (m.index === regex.lastIndex) { regex.lastIndex++; } // The result can be accessed through the `m`-variable. m.forEach((match, groupIndex) => { console.log(`Found match, group ${groupIndex}: ${match}`); }); }

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 JavaScript, please visit: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions