Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • Substitution
  • 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

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/

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

package main import ( "regexp" "fmt" ) func main() { var re = regexp.MustCompile(`^( *)( *)( *)(['.-])((?!\4)(?4)+?)((?!\4|\5)(?4)++)\1\3whale (?=.(.))\6.\7\4(?!\4|\6)([_\/])\3(?!(?11))\8\2(?=\2)\3\1_((?=\4+.).\5(?!\6)\5)(?!.?')\7\4 (?=.\7)\6.([,`])\3{2}(?=.((?!\8)[_\/])\11)\Q(_\E.\4{2}(?!\.)\5((?!\10)(?10)(?!\4+|\5|\6))\1\3{3}(\\) (\3{3})\13\2{2}\1{1}\3+(?<=\S {10})\4\1\3\| \1(?=\12)(?12)(?!`,)\10\4(\11{2})\4\14\10\15\9\8 \14{2}(?=\6)['-]\4(?<!-)\11\8\11\4\6\11\15\.-|(?!)`) var str = `` if len(re.FindStringIndex(str)) > 0 { fmt.Println(re.FindString(str),"found at index",re.FindStringIndex(str)[0]) } }

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 Golang, please visit: https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/