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  • All Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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

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// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml extern crate regex; use regex::Regex; fn main() { let regex = Regex::new(r"(?m)((g[íìỉĩị]|q[úùủũụứừửữự])[aăâeêoôơuưiy])[a-z]*|([bcdfhjklmnprstvxzđ]*[aăâeoôơuưiy][áàảãạắằẳẵặấầẩẫậéèẻẽẹóòỏõọốồổỗộúùủũụứừửữựýỳỷỹỵíìỉĩị])$|([a-zđ]*[áàảãạắằẳẵặấầẩẫậéèẻẽẹóòỏõọốồổỗộúùủũụứừửữựýỳỷỹỵíìỉĩị][aăâêeoôơuưiy][aăâeêoôơuưiybcdfghklmnpqrstvx]+)|([bcdfghjklmnpqrstvxzđ]*[aăâêeoôơuưiy][aăâêeoôơuưiy][áàảãạắằẳẵặấầẩẫậéèẻẽẹóòỏõọốồổỗộúùủũụứừửữựýỳỷỹỵíìỉĩị][bcdfghjklmnpqrstvxz]*)|([a-zăâôơưđ]*[áàảãạắằẳẵặấầẩẫậóòỏõọốồổỗộờớởỡợúùủũụứừửữựýỳỷỹỵíìỉĩị][a-z]*ê[a-zăâôơư]*)|([a-zăâôêưđ]*[áàảãạắằẳẵặấầẩẫậếềểễệóòỏõọốồổỗộúùủũụứừửữựýỳỷỹỵíìỉĩị][a-z]*ơ[a-zăâôơư]*)").unwrap(); let string = "hoạ hoà haọ keó meọ coí gían gíong gíêng qúa qúan gìau gìêng chụyên chuỵên lúyên luỵên túê tụê hòang hùynh tòan tươí toaì tóai chuyện nguyễn hào pháo táo tợn huỳnh hoàng choáng láng ngáng"; // result will be an iterator over tuples containing the start and end indices for each match in the string let result = regex.captures_iter(string); for mat in result { println!("{:?}", mat); } }

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 Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/