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  • All Tokens
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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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use strict; my $str = 'example@example.com:sdfswe12312 example@gmail.com:sdfswe12312 example@example.co.fr:sdfswe12312 example@example.co.uk:sdfswe12312 john@smith.org::sdfswe12312 0-day@bk.ru:nob0dy 0-fpavs98-ref13@mail.ru:ref123456789 0-frajer@gazeta.pl:forktest1221 0-gun@live.nl:bokto12 0-i@ulmb.com:aq1sw2 0-lens@gmail.com:43867799ABC 0-mentor@bol.com.br:102030wi 0-tomac-0@mail.ru:vjq1994 0.0.0.vadim.0.0.0@gmail.com:ValsV199I 0.0.0.web.host@yahoo.com:kZ1X1Vc1vT 0.00webhostjeff@gmail.com:p95donkey 0.03-3f@sapo.pt:SP@Q_]3w0BE&a-{ 0.0@fl-de.com:hggi123 0.0@live.com:sxh3321100 0.0_robert_0.0@live.com:robert1992 0.0asd123@163.com:sls26355'; my $regex = qr/^[\w\-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,}\:[\S\-\.]+$/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