Regular Expressions 101

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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

Regular Expression

/
/
g

Test String

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Generated Code

using System; using System.Text.RegularExpressions; public class Example { public static void Main() { string pattern = @"(\[trx[^\]]+.)|(\[\/trx[^\]]+.)|(<a[^>]+.)|(<img[^>]+.)(<[^>]+.)"; string substitution = @""; string input = @"[trx_columns autoheight=""no"" indentation=""yes"" count=""2""][trx_column_item width=""40%""] <table> <tbody> <tr> <td width=""96"">Suprafaţa</td> <td width=""96"">39 m²</td> </tr> <tr> <td width=""96"">Bucătărie</td> <td width=""96"">9,2 m²</td> </tr> <tr> <td width=""96"">Odaie</td> <td width=""96"">19.3 m²</td> </tr> <tr> <td width=""96"">Antreu</td> <td width=""96"">4.3 m²</td> </tr> <tr> <td width=""96"">Bloc sanitar</td> <td width=""96"">3.3 m²</td> </tr> <tr> <td width=""96"">Balcon</td> <td width=""96"">2.9 m²</td> </tr> <tr> <td width=""96""><strong>Preţ  total</strong></td> <td width=""96""><strong>20 475 €</strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> [/trx_column_item][trx_column_item ]<a href=""http://teatral.md/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/39.jpg""><img class=""alignnone size-medium wp-image-4147"" src=""http://teatral.md/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/39-225x300.jpg"" alt=""39"" width=""225"" height=""300"" /></a>[/trx_column_item][/trx_columns]"; Regex regex = new Regex(pattern); string result = regex.Replace(input, substitution); } }

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 C#, please visit: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.regularexpressions.regex(v=vs.110).aspx