Regular Expressions 101

Save & Share

Flavor

  • PCRE2 (PHP >=7.3)
  • PCRE (PHP <7.3)
  • ECMAScript (JavaScript)
  • Python
  • Golang
  • Java 8
  • .NET 7.0 (C#)
  • Rust
  • Regex Flavor Guide

Function

  • Match
  • Substitution
  • List
  • Unit Tests

Tools

Sponsors
There are currently no sponsors. Become a sponsor today!
An explanation of your regex will be automatically generated as you type.
Detailed match information will be displayed here automatically.
  • 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
No Match

`
`
gmi

Test String

Code Generator

Language

Generated Code

# coding=utf8 # the above tag defines encoding for this document and is for Python 2.x compatibility import re regex = r"\b([^\s\"]+)(\s+|)\:=\s+new\s+([^(]+)\(([^;\(\)]+)\);" test_str = ("create or replace package body ORA_MTK.Test_package_03 as\n" "procedure do_something (n1 in NUMBER, n2 in out NUMBER,n3 in out NOCOPY NUMBER) as\n\n" "aaa11 ty_base := new ty_base();\n\n" "l_array12 tyt_base := new tyt_base(ty_base(1,2,3));\n\n" "aaa13 ty_base:= new ty_base(participantid => 'a',clientid => '1',price => 3);\n\n" "begin\n" " aaa11 ty_base := new ty_base();\n\n" " l_array12 tyt_base := new tyt_base(ty_base(1,2,3));\n\n" " l_array13 := new tyt_base(ty_base(1,2,3));\n\n" " aaa13 := new ty_base(participantid => 'a',clientid => '1',price => 3);\n\n" " aaa14 := new ty_base(participantid => 'a', -- comment 01\n" " clientid => '1' -- comment 01 ; ,\n" " ,price => 3);\n" " aaa15 := new ty_base(participantid15 => 'a', -- comment 01\n" " -- comment 02;\n" " clientid15 => '1'\n" " ,price15 => 3);\n" " \n" " aaa16.xxxx := new ty_base(participantid => 'a',clientid => '1',price => 3);\n" " \n" " l_array(l_array.count) := NEW ty_base(participantid => 300,clientid => 2,price => 3);\n" " l_array(l_array.count).xxxx := NEW ty_base(participantid => 300,clientid => 2,price => 3);\n" " \"aaa 17\" := new ty_base(participantid => 'a',clientid => '1',price => 3);\n" "end do_something;\n\n" "end Test_package_03") matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE) for matchNum, match in enumerate(matches, start=1): print ("Match {matchNum} was found at {start}-{end}: {match}".format(matchNum = matchNum, start = match.start(), end = match.end(), match = match.group())) for groupNum in range(0, len(match.groups())): groupNum = groupNum + 1 print ("Group {groupNum} found at {start}-{end}: {group}".format(groupNum = groupNum, start = match.start(groupNum), end = match.end(groupNum), group = match.group(groupNum))) # Note: for Python 2.7 compatibility, use ur"" to prefix the regex and u"" to prefix the test string and 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 Python, please visit: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html