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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
No Match

/
/
g

Test String

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use strict; my $str = '幹 幹他媽的 幹你娘 乾 乾林老師 靠 靠北 靠杯 靠背 靠盃 靠腰 靠夭 哭夭 去你的 去你媽的 林北 恁北 恁娘 恁祖媽 機掰 賤 俗辣 他媽的 覽趴 懶趴 北爛 盧小 魯洨 色龜 肚爛 屌 啥小 三小 操 屁 唬爛 龜公 他奶奶的 犯賤 機車 智缺 你娘卡好 林老師 破麻 賽 操卒仔 操機歪 糙機掰 無懶趴 卡小 吃小 死魚眼 炭甲查某 糙你妹 GGININ GG IN IN GG IN IN DER 可惡 想揉 想揉 ㄈㄈ尺 英文原生： CCR Fuck off Fuck mother fucker You SOB son of a bitch Go to hell Shit-head Asshole You beast Shit fart Idiot damn it God damn God damn it hypocrite ass hole ass licker bitch phycho bastard Whore Slut Shit-head '; my $regex = qr/[幹乾淦贛干肏操糙去塞賽]?[林賃吝拎恁你他她它祂牠](娘|媽|老師|妹|祖?(嬤|媽|罵))(的|樂|叻|垃|勒|咧|([基唧雞機激][掰歪]))?|([基唧雞機激][掰歪])/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