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
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gm

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Generated Code

use strict; my $str = 'import * as Atblock from "./atblock" import * as Atrule from "./atrule" import * as Supports from "./supports" import * as Node from \'./node\'; import * as Root from \'./root\' import Null from \'./null\' import * as Each from \'./each\' import * as If from \'./if\' import * as Call from \'./call\' import * as UnaryOp from \'./unaryop\' import * as BinOp from \'./binop\' import * as Ternary from \'./ternary\' import * as Block from \'./block\' import * as Unit from \'./unit\' import * as String from \'./string\' import * as HSLA from \'./hsla\' import * as RGBA from \'./rgba\' import * as Ident from \'./ident\' import * as Group from \'./group\' import * as Literal from \'./literal\' import * as Boolean from \'./boolean\' import * as Return from \'./return\' import * as Media from \'./media\' import * as QueryList from \'./query-list\' import * as Query from \'./query\' import * as Feature from \'./feature\' import * as Params from \'./params\' import * as Comment from \'./comment\' import * as Keyframes from \'./keyframes\' import * as Member from \'./member\' import * as Charset from \'./charset\' import * as Namespace from \'./namespace\' import * as Import from \'./import\' import * as Extend from \'./extend\' import * as Object from \'./object\' import * as Function from \'./function\' import * as Property from \'./property\' import * as Selector from \'./selector\' import * as Expression from \'./expression\' import * as Arguments from \'./arguments\' import * as Atblock from \'./atblock\' import * as Atrule from \'./atrule\' import * as Supports from \'./supports\' '; my $regex = qr/^([ \t]*)import [*] as (\w+) from (?:(['])((?:(?:\.)+|[^\n\r'\\]+)+)[']|(["])((?:(?:\.)+|[^\n\r'\\]+)+)["])/mp; my $subst = '$1import $2 from $3$5$6$4$3$5'; my $result = $str =~ s/$regex/$subst/rg; print "The result of the substitution is' $result\n";

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 Perl, please visit: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html