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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
  • Match everything enclosed
    (?:...)
  • Capture everything enclosed
    (...)
  • 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

r"
"
g

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "HTTP\/\d\.\d\s(\d{3})" Local $sString = "HTTP/1.1 302 See other" & @CRLF & _ "Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:20:48 GMT" & @CRLF & _ "Server: Apache" & @CRLF & _ "X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.21" & @CRLF & _ "Set-Cookie: 5e8627afafd16a920dac4dbb644715a5=ue1gprimq6rb5r4qsb8sk28jb2; path=/; HttpOnly" & @CRLF & _ "Location: http://fake.dk/da/" & @CRLF & _ "Connection: close" & @CRLF & _ "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8" & @CRLF & _ "Set-Cookie: SERVERID=; path=/" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" & @CRLF & _ "Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:20:48 GMT" & @CRLF & _ "Server: Apache" & @CRLF & _ "X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.21" & @CRLF & _ "Set-Cookie: 76726d50abd3edd601ecfbc19fe61c87=da-DK; path=/" & @CRLF & _ "Set-Cookie: 76726d50abd3edd601ecfbc19fe61c87=da-DK" & @CRLF & _ "P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"" & @CRLF & _ "Expires: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT" & @CRLF & _ "Last-Modified: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:20:48 GMT" & @CRLF & _ "Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0" & @CRLF & _ "Pragma: no-cache" & @CRLF & _ "Connection: close" & @CRLF & _ "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8" & @CRLF & _ "Set-Cookie: SERVERID=; path=/" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<!doctype html>" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<html lang="da">" & @CRLF & _ "<head>" & @CRLF & _ "</head>" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<body>" & @CRLF & _ "</body>" & @CRLF & _ "</html>" 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