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How to use Regex and Examples

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Regex is a powerful pattern matching tool that allows you to fit a variety of uses.

Here are some of the different pattern matching variables you can use to create a pattern that suits your need.

Character Characteristics

. — any character except newline
\w\d\s — word, digit, whitespace
\W\D\S — not word, digit, whitespace
[abc] — any of a, b, or c
[^abc] — not a, b, or c
[a-g] — character between a & g

Anchors

^abc$ — start / end of the string
\b\B — word, not-word boundary

Escaped Characters

^abc$ — start / end of the string
\b\B — word, not-word boundary

Groups & Lookaround

(abc) — capture group
\1 — backreference to group #1
(?:abc) — non-capturing group
(?=abc) — positive lookahead
(?!abc) — negative lookahead

Quantifiers & Alternation

a*a+a? — 0 or more, 1 or more, 0 or 1
a{5}a{2,} — exactly five, two or more
a{1,3} — between one & three
a+?a{2,}? — match as few as possible
ab|cd — match ab or cd

Scenario 1

You would like to match on the all variants of a domain, including protocols, subdomains or subdirectories. In this example we will match on "example.com" with the regex:

(https?:\/\/(.+?\.)?example\.com(\/[A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?#\[\]@!$&'\\+,;\=])?)

The above expression will match on any of the following URLs:

https://subdomain.example.com/...
https://example.com/folder/...
http://www.example.com/...
https://www.example.com/...
https://example.com/subdirectory...
http://example.com
https://example.com

Explanation

(https?:\/\/(.+?\.)?example\.com(\/[A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?#\[\]@!$&'\*\+,;\=]*)?)

1st Capturing Group

(https?:\/\/(.+?\.)?example\.com(\/[A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?#\[\]@!$&'\*\+,;\=]*)?)

http matches the characters http literally (case-sensitive)

s? matches the character s literally (case-sensitive)

? Quantifier — Matches between zero and one times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed

: matches the character : literally (case-sensitive)

\/ matches the character / literally (case-sensitive)

2nd Capturing Group

(.+?\.)?

? Quantifier — Matches between zero and one times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed

.+? matches any character (except for line terminators)

\. matches the character . literally (case-sensitive)

example matches the characters example literally (case-sensitive)

\. matches the character . literally (case-sensitive)

com matches the characters com literally (case-sensitive)

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Scenario 1

(https?:\/\/(.+?\.)?example\.com(\/[A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?#\[\]@!$&'\(\)\\+,;\=])?)

Explanation

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Scenario 1

(https?:\/\/(.+?\.)?example\.com(\/[A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?#\[\]@!$&'\(\)\*\+,;\=]*)?)

Explanation

1st Capturing Group

2nd Capturing Group

(https?:\/\/(.+?\.)?example\.com(\/[A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?#\[\]@!$&'\(\)\\+,;\=])?)