Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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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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gm

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 = "(?m)(?:(?i)WHERE|AND|OR) \(?([a-zA-Z0-9]+)" Local $sString = "" & @CRLF & _ " return all strings (a-zA-Z0-9) of any length that" & @CRLF & _ " start right after one of the following expressions: "WHERE ", "AND ", "OR ", "WHERE (", "AND (", "OR (" and" & @CRLF & _ " end right before one of the following expressions: "=", ">", "<", "LIKE", "NOT")" & @CRLF & _ " all these expressions should be case-insensitive." & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "I was playing around with the following online regex-tester: https://www.phpliveregex.com/#tab-preg-match-all. However, the closest I got was this, as I dont know how to get multiple matches:" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "preg_match_all('/^[where|and|or|\(]* ([a-zA-Z0-1]*)[ |=|<|<=|>|>=|or|in]*.*$/', $input_lines, $output_array);" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "Some example SQL-queries:" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ " SHOULD RETURN" & @CRLF & _ "WHERE var1=1 AND var2=1 => var1; var2" & @CRLF & _ "WHERE var2 IN (1, 2, 3) OR var3=2 => var2; var3" & @CRLF & _ "WHERE (var4 like '%test%' and var5 NOT LIKE '%test%') => var4; var5" & @CRLF & _ "WHERE var6 = 'test' AnD var7='test2' => var6; var7" 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