Regular Expressions 101

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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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import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Example { public static void main(String[] args) { final String regex = "(?P<time>\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} \\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2},\\d{0,3}) (?P<message>fail2ban.*(?P<gid>\\[\\d*\\]: )(?P<level>[A-Z]{4,7}) .*)"; final String string = "2020-05-11 06:25:02,732 fail2ban.server [879]: INFO rollover performed on /var/log/fail2ban.log\n" + "2020-05-08 01:34:33,079 fail2ban.filter [16566]: INFO [sshd] Found 1.1.1.1 - 2020-05-08 01:34:33\n" + "2020-05-09 04:02:31,316 fail2ban.actions [16566]: NOTICE [sshd] Ban 1.0.0.1\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:06,355 fail2ban.server [9474]: INFO Reload jail GHOST\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:06,355 fail2ban.filter [9474]: INFO Removed logfile: '/opt/logs/ghost/https___nonsense_fyi_production.log'\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:07,902 fail2ban.actions [9474]: NOTICE [GHOST] Flush ticket(s) with iptables-multiport\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:07,902 fail2ban.actions [9474]: NOTICE [GHOST] Flush ticket(s) with iptables-allports\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,699 fail2ban.jail [9474]: INFO Jail 'GHOST' stopped\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,701 fail2ban.jail [9474]: INFO Creating new jail 'GHOST'\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,701 fail2ban.jail [9474]: INFO Jail 'GHOST' uses pyinotify {}\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,706 fail2ban.jail [9474]: INFO Initiated 'pyinotify' backend\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,709 fail2ban.filter [9474]: INFO Added logfile: '/opt/logs/ghost/https___nonsense_fyi_production.log' (pos = 14909, hash = 7091b34995f750999f6c605cd6250439a2e0cde7)\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,710 fail2ban.filter [9474]: INFO encoding: UTF-8\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,711 fail2ban.filter [9474]: INFO maxRetry: 5\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,711 fail2ban.filter [9474]: INFO findtime: 300\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,712 fail2ban.actions [9474]: INFO banTime: 2592000\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,714 fail2ban.jail [9474]: INFO Jail 'GHOST' started\n" + "2020-05-23 00:09:09,714 fail2ban.server [9474]: INFO Reload finished."; 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