Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
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  • 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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gisx

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(?isx)(?:\<\!\-\-(?:(?!\-\-\>)\r\n?|\n|.)*?-\-\>)|(?:<(\S+)\s+(?=.*>)|(?<=[=\s])\G)(?:((?:(?!\s|=).)*)\s*?=\s*?[\"']?((?:(?<=\")(?:(?<=\\)\"|[^\"])*|(?<=')(?:(?<=\\)'|[^'])*)|(?:(?!\"|')(?:(?!\/>|>|\s).)+))[\"']?\s*)" Local $sString = "In this case, $url will indeed contain http://example.com/whatever.jpg. But what happens when you start getting HTML like this:" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<img src='http://example.com/whatever.jpg'>" & @CRLF & _ "or" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<img src=http://example.com/whatever.jpg>" & @CRLF & _ "or" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<img border=0 src="http://example.com/whatever.jpg">" & @CRLF & _ "or" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<img" & @CRLF & _ " src="http://example.com/whatever.jpg">" & @CRLF & _ "or you start getting false positives from" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<!-- // commented out" & @CRLF & _ "<img src="http://example.com/outdated.png">" & @CRLF & _ "-->" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<asd ASD=asd>" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "<!-- // commented out <img src="http://example.com/outdated.png"> -->" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "No quotes:" & @CRLF & _ "<iframe src=test.html target=xyz></iframe>" & @CRLF & _ "Self-closing tag:" & @CRLF & _ "<a href=test.html target=xyz/>" & @CRLF & _ "Self closing tag with a space before closure:" & @CRLF & _ "<a href=test.html target=xyz />" & @CRLF & _ "Double quotes:" & @CRLF & _ "<a href="test.html" target="xyz">" & @CRLF & _ "Single quotes:" & @CRLF & _ "<a href='test.html' target='xyz'>" & @CRLF & _ "Escaping double quotes:" & @CRLF & _ "<a href="test.html?val=1" title="\"No rules exist\" Andre Breton's quote">" & @CRLF & _ "Escaping single quotes (also with spaces between equals signs):" & @CRLF & _ "<a href = "test.html?val=1" title = 'Charlie\'s Angels'>" & @CRLF & _ "Tag without opening (ignore attributes):" & @CRLF & _ "a href = "test.html?val=1" title='Charlie\'s Angels'>" & @CRLF & _ "Tag without closure (ignore attributes):" & @CRLF & _ "<a href = "test.html?val=1" title='Charlie\'s Angels'" & @CRLF & _ "" & @CRLF & _ "" Local $aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sRegex, $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALFULLMATCH) Local $aFullArray[0] For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) -1 _ArrayConcatenate($aFullArray, $aArray[$i]) Next $aArray = $aFullArray ; Present the entire match result _ArrayDisplay($aArray, "Result")

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 AutoIt, please visit: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm