Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
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  • 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

Regular Expression
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gm

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use strict; my $str = 's>i2001:718::2:99/128 195.113.156.4 0 100 0 i s i 195.113.156.4 0 100 0 i s>i2001:718::2:101/128 10.2.8.1 0 100 0 i s i 10.2.8.1 0 100 0 i s>i2001:718::2:116/128 195.113.156.9 1000 205 0 65086 i s i 195.113.156.9 1000 205 0 65086 i s i 2001:718:0:600:0:1a:1a:11 1000 110 0 65086 i s>i2001:718:180a::/48 10.2.7.1 11 100 0 65091 ? s i 10.2.7.1 11 100 0 65091 ? s>i2001:718:180b::/48 10.2.7.1 18 100 0 65091 ? s i 10.2.7.1 18 100 0 65091 ? s>i2001:718:180c::/48 10.2.7.1 11 100 0 65091 ? s i 10.2.7.1 11 100 0 65091 ? '; my $regex = qr/^(?P<status_codes>(i|s|x|S|d|h|\*|\>|\s)+) *(?P<prefix>(?P<ip>[0-9\.\:\[\]]+)\/(?P<mask>\d+))? +(?P<next_hop>\S+) +(?P<number>[\d\.\s\{\}]+)(?: *(?P<origin_codes>(i|e|\?)))?$/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