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  • All Tokens
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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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Test String

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Generated Code

#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(\w+){2,}" Local $sString = "These are words " & @CRLF & _ "they killed a deer" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "$!@#abcd^#$%# 1234" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "(hi&)" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę pieczonego ziemniaka UA-AA." & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę miejsce na balkonie." & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę piwo." & @CRLF & _ ".Poproszę piwo, stek z frytkami i specjalną sałatkę szefa." & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę czarno biały film." & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę koc i poduszkę FAA:kol JF-109." & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę. koc i poduszkę 45-minutoowe." & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę .koc. * 1-2" & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę modelowanie włosów John-3:16." & @CRLF & _ "Poproszę jajko na twardo, sok pomarańczowy i chleb." & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ " , | | . , , ∩ ゚ ∀ ゚ . ━ ━ ━ ┗ 。 ◕ ‿ ‿ ◕ 。 . ↑ ? ? ? . ☆ , 。 ・ ・ ゚ ・ ・ ゚ ★ . ๏ ๏ ๏ ๏ ๏ ๏ , ๏ ๏ ๏ ๏ ๏ ๏ ♥ . ░ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ­ ­ ­ ­ ❀ ♥ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ­ ­ ­ ❀ ­ ♥ ­ ­ ❀ ♥ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ­ ­ ­ ❀ ♥ █ █ ─ █ █ ▀ █ █ █ ▀ █ █ █ ▀ █ █ █ ─ █ ─ █ █ ─ █ █ ▀ █  █ █ ─ ─ █ █ ▀ █ ─ █ ▀ █ █ ▀  █ █ █ ─ █ █ █ ▀ █ █ ▀ ▌ █ ▀ █ ▌ ▀ █ ▌ █ ▀ ▀ ▌ █ ▀ ▀  ▀ ▌ █ ▀ ─ ▌ █ ─ █ ▌ ▀ █ ▌ █ ─ ─ ▌ █ ▀ ▌ █ █ ─ ▌ █  ─ ▌ █ ▌ █ █ ▌ █ ▀ ▀ ▌ █ ▀ ▀ ─ ▀ ▀ ─ ▀ ▀ ▀ ─ ─ ▀ ▀ ─ ─ ─ ▀ ▀ ─ ─ ─ ▀ ▀ ─ ▀ ─ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀ ─ ▀ ─ ▀ ▀ ─ ▀ ▀ ▀ ─ ▀ ▀ ▀ ▀  ▀ ▀ ▀  ░ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ❀ ♥ ♥ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ ­ ❀ ­ ♥ ­ ­ ­ ­ ❀ ♥ ♥ ❀ ♥ ❀ ♥ D ­ AY . ● ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ๑๑ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ● . ● ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ๑๑ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ● . ( - 。 - ) zzZZZ ." 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