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

Regular Expression
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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"(where|and|or)\s*([^\s=]*?)\s*(=|<>|>=|=<|>|<)\s*(""|'|\\""|\\')([^\4]*?)\4"; string input = @"REPLACE active_watchers_log SET sent_msg=""NOTIFY sip:995582134@192.168.26.5:5062 SIP/2.0 Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 10.23.0.2;branch=z9hG4bKfd9d.445c5656000000000000000000000000.0 To: <sip:995582134@teste.sip.90e9.com>;tag=89b8ace0d56977e7 From: <sip:user_7z7b6s@teste.sip.90e9.com>;tag=9e489e1f14886363a3aeebf53b8dbf2c-4976 CSeq: 34 NOTIFY Call-ID: bec506c8-48da1ac1@192.168.26.5 Content-Length: 277 Max-Forwards: 70 Event: dialog Contact: <sip:10.23.0.2:5060;transport=udp> Subscription-State: active;expires=600 Content-Type: application/dialog-info+xml <?xml version=\""1.0\""?> <dialog-info xmlns=\""urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:dialog-info\"" version=\""34\"" state=\""full\"" entity=\""sip:user_7z7b6s@teste.sip.90e9.com\""> <dialog id=\""615293b33c62dec073e05d9421e9f48b\"" direction=\""recipient\""> <state>terminated</state> </dialog> </dialog-info> "", received_msg=""SIP/2.0 200 OK To: <sip:995582134@teste.sip.90e9.com>;tag=89b8ace0d56977e7 From: <sip:user_7z7b6s@teste.sip.90e9.com>;tag=9e489e1f14886363a3aeebf53b8dbf2c-4976 Call-ID: bec506c8-48da1ac1@192.168.26.5 CSeq: 34 NOTIFY Via: SIP/2.0/UDP 10.23.0.2;branch=z9hG4bKfd9d.445c5656000000000000000000000000.0 Server: Cisco/SPA504G-7.6.0 Content-Length: 0 "", time=1453481591, result=200 where pres_uri=""sip:user_7z7b6s@teste.sip.90e9.com"" and callid=""bec506c8-48da1ac1@192.168.26.5"" and watcher_user=\""995582134\"" and watcher_domain=\'teste.sip.90e9.com\' and to_user=""user_7z7b6s"" and to_domain=""teste.sip.90e9.com"""; foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(input, pattern)) { Console.WriteLine("'{0}' found at index {1}.", m.Value, m.Index); } } }

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 C#, please visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex(v=vs.110).aspx