Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • 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
  • 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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using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"[\r\n]+"; string substitution = @"\n"; string input = @"#EXTINF:-1 tvg-name=""seedocs"" tvg-logo=""RT"",RT http://rt.ashttp14.visionip.tv/live/rt-global-live-HD/playlist.m3u8 #EXTINF:-1 tvg-name=""hsn"" tvg-logo=""hsn"",HSN TV rtsp://hsn.mpl.miisolutions.net:1935/hsn-live01/_definst_/mp4:420p500kB31 #EXTINF:-1 tvg-name=""us"" tvg-logo=""us"",USTwit http://bglive-a.bitgravity.com/twit/live/high #EXTINF:-1 tvg-name=""ALJAZEERA"" tvg-logo=""aljazeera"",Aljazeera rtmp://aljazeeraflashlivefs.fplive.net/aljazeeraflashlive-live/aljazeera_eng_high #EXTINF:-1 tvg-name=""bbc"" tvg-logo=""bbc"",BBC World News #EXTINF:-1 tvg-name=""vevo"" tvg-logo=""vevo"",Vevo http://vevoplaylist-live.hls.adaptive.level3.net/vevo/ch1/06/prog_index.m3u8 #EXTINF:-1 tvg-name=""vevo2"" tvg-logo=""vevo2"",Vevo 2 http://vevoplaylist-live.hls.adaptive.level3.net/vevo/ch3/06/prog_index.m3u8 #EXTINF:-1 tvg-name=""1HD"" tvg-logo=""1HD"",1HD rtmp://109.239.142.62/live/livestream3"; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.Multiline; Regex regex = new Regex(pattern, options); string result = regex.Replace(input, substitution); } }

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 C#, please visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex(v=vs.110).aspx