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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

Regular Expression
No Match

r"
"
gm

Test String

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Generated Code

#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(?m)age [0-9]*.\n(.*)" Local $sString = "Born Elon Reeve Musk" & @CRLF & _ "June 28, 1971 (age 50)" & @CRLF & _ "Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa" & @CRLF & _ "Citizenship " & @CRLF & _ "South Africa (1971–present)" & @CRLF & _ "Canada (1971–present)" & @CRLF & _ "United States (2002–present)" & @CRLF & _ "Education University of Pennsylvania (BS, BA)" & @CRLF & _ "Title " & @CRLF & _ "Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of SpaceX" & @CRLF & _ "CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc." & @CRLF & _ "Founder of The Boring Company and X.com (now part of PayPal)" & @CRLF & _ "Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, and Zip2" & @CRLF & _ "Spouse(s) " & @CRLF & _ "Justine Wilson" & @CRLF & _ "​" & @CRLF & _ "​(m. 2000; div. 2008)​" & @CRLF & _ "Talulah Riley" & @CRLF & _ "​" & @CRLF & _ "​(m. 2010; div. 2012)​" & @CRLF & _ "​" & @CRLF & _ "​(m. 2013; div. 2016)" & @CRLF & _ "" Local $aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sRegex, $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALFULLMATCH) Local $aFullArray[0] For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) -1 _ArrayConcatenate($aFullArray, $aArray[$i]) Next $aArray = $aFullArray ; Present the entire match result _ArrayDisplay($aArray, "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 AutoIt, please visit: https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/StringRegExp.htm