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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • 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]
  • Character class intersection
    [\w&&[^\d]]
  • 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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package main import ( "regexp" "fmt" ) func main() { var re = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\[link=(?:https?:)?\/\/(www\.)?([\da-z\.-]+)\.([a-z\.]{2,6})([\/\w \.-](\S*[&|#]\S+)*)*\/?\]\S(.*?)\[\/link\]`) var str = `// Lolos [link=https://namablog.com/]teks[/link] [link=http://namablog.co.id/]teks[/link] [link=http://namablog.com/2016/04/vita-denique-conferta-voluptatum-omnium.html]teks[/link] [link=https://namablog.blogspot.com/2016/04/vita-denique-conferta-voluptatum-omnium.html?showComment=1468398368234#c4159204139756303657]teks[/link] [link=https://namablog.blogspot.co.id/search?updated-max=2016-04-17T04:28:00-07:00&max-results=7/]teks[/link] // Lolos tanpa protokol [link=//namablog.com/]teks[/link] // Tidak lolos tanpa teks [link=https://namablog.com][/link] // Tidak lolos jika hanya spasi [link=https://namablog.com] [/link] // Format rusak, tidak lolos! [link=https://namablog.com/]teks[/link [link=https://namablog]teks[link] [link=https://namablog.com/]teks/link] [link=https://namablog.com/]teks[link]` for i, match := range re.FindAllString(str, -1) { fmt.Println(match, "found at index", i) } }

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 Golang, please visit: https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/