Regular Expressions 101

Save & Share

  • Regex Version: ver. 1
  • Update Regex
    ctrl+⇧+s
  • Save new Regex
    ctrl+s
  • Add to Community Library

Flavor

  • PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
  • PCRE (PHP <7.3)
  • ECMAScript (JavaScript)
  • Python
  • Golang
  • Java 8
  • .NET 7.0 (C#)
  • Rust
  • Regex Flavor Guide

Function

  • Match
  • Substitution
  • List
  • Unit Tests

Tools

Sponsors
There are currently no sponsors. Become a sponsor today!
An explanation of your regex will be automatically generated as you type.
Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.
  • 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

Regular Expression

/
/
gm

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml extern crate regex; use regex::Regex; fn main() { let regex = Regex::new(r#"(?m)(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])"#).unwrap(); let string = "Valid email addresses simple@example.com \"user@name\"@example.com very.common@example.com disposable.style.email.with+symbol@example.com other.email-with-hyphen@example.com fully-qualified-domain@example.com user.name+tag+sorting@example.com (may go to user.name@example.com inbox depending on mail server) x@example.com (one-letter local-part) example-indeed@strange-example.com test/test@test.com (slashes are a printable character, and allowed) admin@mailserver1 (local domain name with no TLD, although ICANN highly discourages dotless email addresses[10]) example@s.example (see the List of Internet top-level domains) \" \"@example.org (space between the quotes) \"john..doe\"@example.org (quoted double dot) mailhost!username@example.org (bangified host route used for uucp mailers) user%example.com@example.org (% escaped mail route to user@example.com via example.org) user-@example.org (local part ending with non-alphanumeric character from the list of allowed printable characters) postmaster@[123.123.123.123] (IP addresses are allowed instead of domains when in square brackets, but strongly discouraged) postmaster@[IPv6:2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334] (IPv6 uses a different syntax) Invalid email addresses Abc.example.com (no @ character) A@b@c@example.com (only one @ is allowed outside quotation marks) a\"b(c)d,e:f;gi[j\\k]l@example.com (none of the special characters in this local-part are allowed outside quotation marks) just\"not\"right@example.com (quoted strings must be dot separated or the only element making up the local-part) this is\"not\\allowed@example.com (spaces, quotes, and backslashes may only exist when within quoted strings and preceded by a backslash) this\\ still\\\"not\\\\allowed@example.com (even if escaped (preceded by a backslash), spaces, quotes, and backslashes must still be contained by quotes) 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234+x@example.com (local-part is longer than 64 characters) i_like_underscore@but_its_not_allowed_in_this_part.example.com (Underscore is not allowed in domain part) QA[icon]CHOCOLATE[icon]@test.com (icon characters)"; // result will be an iterator over tuples containing the start and end indices for each match in the string let result = regex.captures_iter(string); for mat in result { println!("{:?}", mat); } }

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 Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/