Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • 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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import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Example { public static void main(String[] args) { final String regex = "(?P<timestamp>[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}.[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}) (?P<severity>[A-Z]) (?P<component>[A-Z]+) ?\\[ ?(?P<context>[a-zA-Z0-9 ]+)] (?<message>[^\\n]+)"; final String string = "MongoDB\n\n\n" + "2014-11-03T18:28:32.450-0500 I NETWORK [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017\n\n" + " 2019-04-09T14:03:15.546-0400 I COMMAND [conn1] command test.items appName: \"MongoDB Shell\" command: aggregate { aggregate: \"items\", pipeline: [ { $match: { a: { $gte: 4.0 } } } ], cursor: {}, lsid: { id: UUID(\"042b423f-91bb-43bd-a378-4657ad4e0b35\") }, $db: \"test\" } planSummary: COLLSCAN cursorid:7185821004643502676 keysExamined:0 docsExamined:25000 hasSortStage:1 numYields:289 nreturned:101 reslen:1305014 locks:{ Global: { acquireCount: { r: 387 } }, Database: { acquireCount: { r: 387 } }, Collection: { acquireCount: { r: 387 } } } storage:{ data: { bytesRead: 6808584, timeReadingMicros: 4336 } } protocol:op_msg 34439ms\n\n" + "2014-11-03T18:28:32.450-0500\n\n\n"; final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.MULTILINE); final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string); while (matcher.find()) { System.out.println("Full match: " + matcher.group(0)); for (int i = 1; i <= matcher.groupCount(); i++) { System.out.println("Group " + i + ": " + matcher.group(i)); } } } }

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 Java, please visit: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html