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
  • 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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guxm

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"(?(DEFINE) (?<currency_symbol> \p{Sc} ) (?<leading_group> [1-9] \d{0,2}+ ) (?<group> \d{3}+ ) (?<non_leading_groups> (?&group) (?:(?&group_delim)(?&group))*+ ) (?<decimal_delim> (?# Use the opposite of group_delim. ) (?(group_delim_comma) \. | (?(group_delim_period) , | [,.] (?# There's no definitive grouping_delim. ) ) ) ) ) ^ (?> (?&currency_symbol) (?&leading_group) (?: (?<group_delim> (?<group_delim_comma> , ) | (?<group_delim_period> \. ) | \ (?# Allow whitespace as a delimiter. ) ) (?&non_leading_groups) | \d*+ (?# It's also possible that there's no delimiter. ) ) ) (?: (?&decimal_delim) \d*+ )?+ $"; string input = @"Here's the same regex in a convenient one-liner: /^(?>\p{Sc}[1-9]\d{0,2}+(?:(?<gd>(?<gdc>,)|(?<gdp>\.)|\ )\d{3}+(?:(?&gd)\d{3}+)*+|\d*+))(?:(?(gdc)\.|(?(gdp),|[,.]))\d*+)?+$/u We want to match these: $1 $10 $100 $1000 $1,000 $10,000 $100,000 $1,000,000 $1.00 $100.00 $10,000.00 $1,000,000.00 $1.000.000,00 $1.000 $1.000.000 $1,00 $1.000,00 $10000000000000 $100000000000.00000 $100000000000,00000 We don't want to match these: $1,000,00 $1,00,00 $1.00.000 A few different currency symbols that we want to match: $1 ¢1 £1 ¤1 ¥1 ₠1 ₡1 ₢1 ₣1 ₤1 ₥1 ₦1 ₧1 ₩1 ₪1 ₫1 €1 ₭1 ₮1 ₯1 ₰1 ₱1 ₲1 ₳1 ₴1 ₵1 ₶1 ₷1 ₸1 ₹1 ₺1 ₻1 ₼1 ₽1 Nearby symbols that share some bytes (UTF-8) that we don't want to match: ¡1 ¦1 §1 ©1 ₔ1"; RegexOptions options = RegexOptions.CultureInvariant | RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace | RegexOptions.Multiline; foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(input, pattern, options)) { Console.WriteLine("'{0}' found at index {1}.", m.Value, m.Index); } } }

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