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
No Match

/
/
gm

Test String

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use strict; my $str = ' stu IN MX 15 1826300652.mail.outlook.com. sse IN MX 20 71892d7f2309e64ba6aa36cf20484a.mail.outlook.com. pridns IN A 202.203.208.33 ; 云大电子党建平台 pridns IN AAAA 2001:250:2800:2::33 secdns IN A 202.203.208.34 secdns IN AAAA 2001:250:2800:2::34 _acme-challenge IN TXT oRKINFT0awvpteMfKl--2AKSZWujeeBg0FBudZKsxW0 ynu-public-dns-a IN A 113.55.13.51 ynu-public-dns-a IN AAAA 2001:250:2800::13:51 ynu-public-dns-b IN A 113.55.13.52 ynu-public-dns-b IN AAAA 2001:250:2800::13:52 @ IN A 39.129.5.118 www.sap IN CNAME lb-http-xn www.sxzx IN CNAME lb-http-xn ; site-cluster IN A 202.203.208.28 ;site-cluster IN AAAA 2001:250:2800:2::28 ; 云大电子党建平台 www.yddzdjpt IN CNAME lb-http site-group IN A 202.203.208.4 ;site-group IN AAAA 2001:250:2800:2::41 ; 站群系统域名统一放在这里 ; 站群网站：云南大学工商管理与旅游管理学院 ;www.bts IN CNAME site-group ; 档案馆 www.archives IN CNAME site-group ; 未知 www.cas IN CNAME site-group ; 三严三实和忠诚干净担当专题教育 sysshzcgjdd IN CNAME site-group www.211 IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学地方政府治理中心网站信息发布 www.lgg IN CNAME site-group ; 站群网站：中国高等教育学会教育信息化分会第六届理事会第二次常务理事会议 ; cheia2015 IN CNAME site-group ; 东陆书院 www.dlsy IN CNAME site-group ; 东陆校区综合管理服务中心 www.dlzhfw IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学党委办公室 www.dwoffice IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学研究生院 www.grs IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学艺术与设计学院 www.art IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学茶马古道文化研究所 ; www.chamagudao IN CNAME site-group ; 云南省高校数字媒体技术重点实验室 www.dmtlab IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学经济学院 www.eco IN CNAME site-group ; 地理环境研究所 www.ger IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学高等教育研究院 www.hie IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学基建处 （网站改版0523） www.jjc IN CNAME site-group ; 国际河流与生态安全研究院 www.ires IN CNAME site-group ; 云南大学现代分析测试中心 www.labct IN CNAME site-group'; my $regex = qr/(?:^;\s*(?<comment>.+?)\s*$\n)?^\s*(?!;)(?<name>.*?)\s+(?<className>.*?)\s+(?<type>.*?)\s+(?<value>.*?)$/mp; if ( $str =~ /$regex/g ) { print "Whole match is ${^MATCH} and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[0] and \$+[0]\n"; # print "Capture Group 1 is $1 and its start/end positions can be obtained via \$-[1] and \$+[1]\n"; # print "Capture Group 2 is $2 ... and so on\n"; } # ${^POSTMATCH} and ${^PREMATCH} are also available with the use of '/p' # Named capture groups can be called via $+{name}

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 Perl, please visit: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html