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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • 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]
  • 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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import Foundation let pattern = #"^[a-z][a-z0-9]*(([A-Z][a-z0-9]+)*[A-Z]?|([a-z0-9]+[A-Z])*|[A-Z])$"# let regex = try! NSRegularExpression(pattern: pattern, options: .anchorsMatchLines) let testString = #""" snake_case PascalCase 2PascalCase streamIOIO gREATERDtha modeADFAFdsADFads aBabcABCDabcABC modeADFdsADFads streamIO aBCabcABCabcA aBCabcA aabcABC deviceSNS pathASNs dscpCP awsVPC deviceID gREA1 gREAt gREAtREAt aABC modeADFsADFads modeADFads createAMode createBMode contextHTMLParser ibsReleaseTestVerificationRegressioNSuite hELLO camelCA camel01CC01 camelCa_1 aabc123 a ab abc abcd abcde camelCasecamelCasecamelCasecamelCasecamelCasecamelCase aG alphabet cP3 a1 a1G a123 camelCase lThan30DaysCount lessThan30DaysCount lessThan30DaysCountA greaterThan30LessThan60DaysCount greaterThan60LessThan90DaysCount greaterThan90DaysCount pascalCase pascal2Case pascalCaseA pascal2CaseA modeA mode2A mode2A2 mode2A2A madeEasy wonderFul andMe htmlParser h aaA camel01C camel01c01 camel01C01 camel0a1c1 camel0a1C1 camel0ac1b1C1 camelC camelC1 camelCa1 ibsReleaseTestVerificationRegressionSuite ibsReleaseTestVerificationRegressioN xmlHttpRequest newCustomerId innerStopwatch supportsIpv6OnIos youTubeImporter youtubeImporter affine3D """# let stringRange = NSRange(location: 0, length: testString.utf16.count) let matches = regex.matches(in: testString, range: stringRange) var result: [[String]] = [] for match in matches { var groups: [String] = [] for rangeIndex in 1 ..< match.numberOfRanges { let nsRange = match.range(at: rangeIndex) guard !NSEqualRanges(nsRange, NSMakeRange(NSNotFound, 0)) else { continue } let string = (testString as NSString).substring(with: nsRange) groups.append(string) } if !groups.isEmpty { result.append(groups) } } print(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 Swift 5.2, please visit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsregularexpression