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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

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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 = "web\\.\\d{1,}\\s+\\|\\s+(\\{|>)"; final String string = "10:50:46 AM web.2 | > creating redis session\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.161Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.3 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28296,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"cache-headers\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: cache-headers\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.172Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.2 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28283,\"level\":40,\"msg\":\"LC-SESSION: set the secret for the session cookies in the config file, check lc-session config\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.174Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.3 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28296,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"client-id\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: client-id\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.175Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.3 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28296,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"cookie-parser\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: cookie-parser\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.175Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.3 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28296,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"guid\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: guid\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.175Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.3 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28296,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"healthy\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: healthy\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.176Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.2 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28283,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"sso\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: sso\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.177Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.2 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28283,\"level\":30,\"msg\":\"SSO-MIDDLEWARE: Detecting SSO config\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.177Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.2 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28283,\"level\":30,\"msg\":\"SSO-MIDDLEWARE: enabling JANUS-SSO\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.179Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.2 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28283,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"timer\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: timer\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.180Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.1 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28278,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"cache-headers\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: cache-headers\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.180Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.2 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28283,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"setTrackingData\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: setTrackingData\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.181Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.1 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28278,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"client-id\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: client-id\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.181Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.1 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28278,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"cookie-parser\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: cookie-parser\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.181Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:46 AM web.1 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28278,\"level\":20,\"middleware\":\"guid\",\"msg\":\"Loading middleware:: guid\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:46.181Z\",\"v\":0}\n" + "10:50:42 AM haproxy.1 | [WARNING] 138/105042 (28265) : Server nodes/node5001 is DOWN, reason: Layer4 connection problem, info: \"Connection refused\", check duration: 0ms. 2 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue.\n" + "10:50:42 AM web.1 | warn: --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms\n" + "10:50:42 AM web.1 | warn: --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms\n" + "10:50:42 AM web.2 | warn: --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms\n" + "10:50:42 AM web.2 | warn: --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms\n" + "10:50:42 AM web.3 | warn: --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms\n" + "10:50:42 AM web.3 | warn: --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms\n" + "10:50:42 AM haproxy.1 | [WARNING] 138/105042 (28265) : Server nodes/node5002 is DOWN, reason: Layer4 connection problem, info: \"Connection refused\", check duration: 0ms. 1 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue.\n" + "10:50:42 AM web.4 | warn: --minUptime not set. Defaulting to: 1000ms\n" + "10:50:42 AM web.4 | warn: --spinSleepTime not set. Your script will exit if it does not stay up for at least 1000ms\n" + "10:50:43 AM haproxy.1 | [WARNING] 138/105043 (28265) : Server nodes/node5003 is DOWN, reason: Layer4 connection problem, info: \"Connection refused\", check duration: 0ms. 0 active and 0 backup servers left. 0 sessions active, 0 requeued, 0 remaining in queue.\n" + "10:50:43 AM haproxy.1 | [ALERT] 138/105043 (28265) : backend 'nodes' has no server available!\n" + "10:50:43 AM web.2 | {\"name\":\"investor-webapp-registration\",\"hostname\":\"lasinvonboard101-prod.tlcinternal.com\",\"pid\":28283,\"level\":30,\"msg\":\"starting server on port 5001\",\"time\":\"2016-05-18T17:50:43.751Z\",\"v\":0}"; final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex); 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