Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Quantifiers
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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
No Match

/
/
g

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use strict; my $str = 'Expiration Fee: 10 LONG AUD/USD >.8189 (9:50AM) @ 90.5 10 Wall St 30 (Mar) >17900 (4:15PM) @ 69.5 2 AUD/USD >.8114 (11:35AM) @ 97.5 Expiration Fee: 1 SHORT AUD/USD >.8114 (11:35AM) @ 87 2 Wall St 30 (Mar) 18000-18100 (12PM) @ 18023 2 LONG US Tech 100 (Mar) >4284 (1:15PM) @ 56.5 1 EUR/USD >1.2180 (3PM) @ 41.5 Expiration Fee: 1 SHORT AUD/USD >.8114 (11:35AM) @ 87 Expiration Fee: 1 LONG GBP/USD >1.5090 (8:55PM) @ 95.5 Expiration Fee: 2 SHORT US 500 (Mar) >2037.7 (10AM) @ 5.5 Expiration Fee: 1 SHORT EUR/USD >1.1582 (2:20PM) @ 11.5 6 SHORT GBP/USD >1.5200 (3:10PM) @ 22.3333 Expiration Fee: 1 SHORT GBP/USD >1.5085 (8PM) @ 17.5 Expiration Fee: 1 SHORT EUR/GBP >.7340 (3PM) @ 33.25 2 Wall St 30 (Mar) 18000-18100 (12PM) @ 18023 Expiration Fee: 5 LONG US Tech 100 (Mar) 4190-4390 (4:15PM) @ 4291 2 LONG Wall St 30 (Mar) >18000 (1:15PM) @ 53.5 1 AUD/USD .7570-.7670 (2PM) @ 0.7626 1 US 500 (Jun) 2075.0-2085.0 1 US 500 (Jun) 2075.0-2085.0 (1PM) @ 2079 1 AUD/USD .7570-.7670 (2PM) @ 0.7626 2 AUD/USD .8020-.8220 (11PM) @ 0.8118'; my $regex = qr/(?:Expiration Fee: )?(\d+)\s+((?:[a-zA-Z\d\/]+\s+)*)(?:\(([a-zA-Z]+)\)\s+)?(?:>([0-9.]+)\s+)?(?:([\d.]+-[\d.]+)\s*)?(?:\((\d{1,2}(?::\d{2})?[AP]M)\)\s+)?(?:@\s+([\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