Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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

Regular Expression
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/
/
g

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use strict; my $str = '00:16:0808-11-20AES:AE022AGES:022.60032S!20FINI/ID60032S,BLUE01,ZPR008A21308/MR1,2/AFLPLA,KPSM/TD071030,10325053 01:30:0808-11-20AES:AE20C7GES:442.77186A!H1G-#MDINI/ID77186A,RCH356,AAM18131E306/MR0,0/AFLPLA,KPSM/TD070705,113038C4 19:37:0708-11-20AES:AE1472GES:822.77180A!H1N-#MDINI/ID77180A,RCH871,AJRF3368F313/MR1,0/AFFJDG,OAIX/TD081130,1059997B 20:49:0908-11-20AES:AE123AGES:822.44128A!H1P-#MDINI/ID44128A,RCH836,AJZA3362C312/MR0,0/AFFJDG,OKAS/TD081245,1245C15B 04:16:0508-11-20AES:AE0580GES:D02.70035B!33F/AMCTACC.INI01081215INITIALIZERCH551MC0035ABR02Y5XD313KDOVLERT081400/ 22:33:0708-11-20AES:AE10BFGES:822.10196A!H1D-#MDINI/ID10196A,RCH873,JJRF3361F312/MR0,0/AFRODN,FJDG/TD071355,135525BA 22:47:0908-11-20AES:AE117EGES:822.21112A!H1C-#MDINI/ID21112A,RCH877,JJZA3363C312/MR0,0/AFFJDG,OKAS/TD081345,1345F5F3 07:32:0808-11-20AES:AE0243GES:022.80047S!20G01/Y/MC/0047/08/KIAB/KSVN/1701/0000/SNAP85//6A9E'; my $regex = qr/.+AES:.+?:.+?!.+?,.+?,.+?,.+?,.+?,\d+/p; 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