Regular Expressions 101

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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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#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(?m)(?<=authorization:\s)([\w-.]+)(?=' \^)" Local $sString = "curl 'https://i-tools.cys.com/api/v1/places/nearby?latitude=-6.30491801&longitude=106.6861089&radius_in_km=0.5&providers=internaltopv2&limit=10&msg_id=aa0cabd1-db82-11ea-af17-1d5f5xxxxx' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'authority: i-tools.cys.com' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'accept: application/json, text/plain, */*' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'authorization: axZhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6Il9kZWZhdWx0IiwidHlwIjoiSldUIn0.eyJhdWQiOiJHRU8tVE9PTFMiLCJleHAiOjE2MDgxMDgxNDYsImlhdCI6MTYwODAyMTc0MywianRpIjoiNDA2NjI5NzgtN2RmMS00MDE5LThjZTktMTZkMTFlMjY4NmYyIiwibG1lIjoiR09PR0xFVjMiLCJuYW1lIjoiIiwic3ViIjoiNWU1ZWQyM2YtNGRkMi00YmY3LThkNTEtZGM0MzY0NDdmNzg5In0.IXBubd0NrCaVEyrnaskH4CO50nP5qLz-6G02IBpy0vnPAjHcFeLd4OdocN2TinuBiK_LtgIfIgLCOJx_A3hsNCqnAbIRKfKV6b7xO7HSLNXIT3PS8iAy_z2I5bW4-hUcKJkrMJcgHA8j2bBZGlAPaDf6PkjdzFM7M0P_kXk5H_zKyO2prAQA-eh3UYUr22PLptLsusWMAfXFGf42eUoNz6gq8KKWzaO0wc7FqrYD-rLz50xDMuwLS9J-su4TzIhpJgaMKq8rIvNyy5nAs-77IhG_foaIelVY6ZGFgUe_dvq0Ox9JrR8tqLV7kRwMf7EAIgbdKN-Xxu8ZbulhhuxNZA' ^" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'i-tools-params: {"client_version":"v11.0.1xxxx"}' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/84.0.4147.89 Mobile Safari/537.36' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'x-app-identity: i_tools' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'origin: https://i-tools.cys.net' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'sec-fetch-site: cross-site' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'referer: https://i-tools.cys.net/ops-tools/place-nearby-v2' \" & @CRLF & _ "-H 'accept-language: id-ID,id;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7' \" & @CRLF & _ "--compressed" Local $aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sRegex, $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALFULLMATCH) Local $aFullArray[0] For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) -1 _ArrayConcatenate($aFullArray, $aArray[$i]) Next $aArray = $aFullArray ; Present the entire match result _ArrayDisplay($aArray, "Result")

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 AutoIt, please visit: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm