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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

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import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Example { public static void main(String[] args) { final String regex = "^((?:https?://(?:www\\.)?|www\\.)(?:(?!-)[A-Za-z0-9-]+\\.[a-z]+)(?:\\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\\/?)*(?:[?&][A-Za-z0-9-\\=\\+_]+)*(?:\\.[a-z]+)*)$|^((?:\\d{1,3}\\.){3}\\d{1,3}(?:\\:\\d+)?)$"; final String string = "http://www.google.com\n" + "http://google.com\n" + "https://www.google.com\n" + "https://google.com\n" + "www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789-.com\n" + "http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789-.com\n\n" + "https://www.crummy.com/software/wow/\n" + "https://www.crummy.com/software?wow=1\n" + "https://www.crummy.com/software/examples/hello?wow=1&yep=ok\n" + "https://www.crummy.com/software?wow=1+and+2&yep=ok\n\n" + "https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/_sources/index.txt\n\n" + "Outliers\n" + "http://www.google\n" + "http://wwww.google.com\n" + "http://ww.google.com\n" + "https://w.g.c\n\n" + "255.255.255.255:5555\n" + "192.168.9.50:22\n" + "127.0.0.1\n" + "127.0.0.1:8080\n\n" + "www.google\n" + "google.com\n" + "google\n\n" + "ww.google.c\n" + "ht://www.google.com\n" + "www.-google.com\n"; final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.MULTILINE); final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string); while (matcher.find()) { System.out.println("Full match: " + matcher.group(0)); for (int i = 1; i <= matcher.groupCount(); i++) { System.out.println("Group " + i + ": " + matcher.group(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 Java, please visit: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html