Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • 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

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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)(?:count=)(?P<G1>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_ONE))?(?P<G2>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_TWO))?(?P<G3>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_THREE))?(?P<G4>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_FOUR))?(?P<G5>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_FIVE))?(?P<G6>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_SIX))?(?P<G7>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_SEVEN))?(?P<G8>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_EIGHT))?(?P<G9>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_NINE))?(?P<G10>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_TEN))?(?P<G11>\d+(?=\.0, state=STATE_ELEVEN))?").unwrap(); let string = "xxx <xx>x 2020-02-07T18:57:21.980698+00:00 xxxxxx.prod.xxxx xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx [APP/PROC/WEB/0] - - 2020-02-07 18:57:21.980+0000 org{xxxxxxxx} INFO x.x.x.x.x.x.implementation.WorkflowAPI [] [] [] [{count=55.0, state=STATE_ONE}, {count=10.0, state=STATE_TWO}, {count=13.0, state=STATE_THREE}, {count=12.0, state=STATE_FOUR}, {count=11.0, state=STATE_FIVE}, {count=14.0, state=STATE_SIX}, {count=1.0, state=STATE_SEVEN}, {count=69.0, state=STATE_NINE}, {count=420.0, state=STATE_ELEVEN}]"; // 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/