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    a{3}
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    a{3,}
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import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Example { public static void main(String[] args) { final String regex = "(?<=\\W)\\$[a-zA-Z_\\\\\\{\\}= +']+\\$"; final String string = "We try to quantitatively capture these characteristics by defining a set of indexes, which can be computed using the mosaic image and the corresponding ground truth:\n" + "\\begin{itemize}\n" + " \\item $\\mu_{A_T}$ and $\\sigma_{A_T}$, the mean and standard deviation of the tiles area $A_T$, respectively;\n" + " \\item $\\rho_\\text{filler}$, the ratio between the filler area and the overall mosaic are, computed as $\\rho_\\text{filler}=\\frac{\\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T} A_T}}{A}$, being $A$ the area of the mosaic;\n" + " \\item \\todo{does it worth?};\n" + " \\item \\todo{does it worth?};\n" + " \\item $\\mu_{C_T}$, the mean of the tiles \\emph{color dispersion} $C_T$, being $C_T = \\sigma_R+\\sigma_G+\\sigma_B$, where $\\sigma_R$, $\\sigma_G$ and $\\sigma_B$ are the standard deviation of the red, green and blue channel values of the pixels within the tile $T$.\n" + "After applying a method to an image, we compare the segmented image (i.e., the result) against the ground truth and assess the performance according to the following three metrics:\n" + "\\begin{itemize}\n" + " \\item average tile precision $P$\n" + " \\item average tile recall $R$\n" + " \\item tile count error $C$\n" + "\\end{itemize}\n" + "Let $T$ be a tile on the ground truth $\\mathcal{T}$ with area $A_T$.\n" + "Let $T'$ be the tile in the segmented image which mostly overlaps $T$ and let $A_{T'}$ be the area of $T$; let $A_{T \\cap T'}$ be the overlapping area between $T$ and $T'$.\n" + "Let $n$ and $n'$ the number of tiles respectively in the ground truth and in the segmented image.\n" + "Metrics are defined as:\n" + "\\begin{align}\n" + " P &amp;= \\frac{1}{n} \\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T}} \\frac{A_{T \\cap T'}}{A_{T'}} \\\\\n" + " R &amp;= \\frac{1}{n} \\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T}} \\frac{A_{T \\cap T'}}{A_T} \\\\\n" + " C &amp;= \\frac{|n-n'|}{n}\n" + "\\end{align}\n" + "We try to quantitatively capture these characteristics by defining a set of indexes, which can be computed using the mosaic image and the corresponding ground truth:\n" + "\\begin{itemize}\n" + " \\item $\\mu_{A_T}$ and $\\sigma_{A_T}$, the mean and standard deviation of the tiles area $A_T$, respectively;\n" + " \\item $\\rho_\\text{filler}$, the ratio between the filler area and the overall mosaic are, computed as $\\rho_\\text{filler}=\\frac{\\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T} A_T}}{A}$, being $A$ the area of the mosaic;\n" + " \\item \\todo{does it worth?};\n" + " \\item \\todo{does it worth?};\n" + " \\item $\\mu_{C_T}$, the mean of the tiles \\emph{color dispersion} $C_T$, being $C_T = \\sigma_R+\\sigma_G+\\sigma_B$, where $\\sigma_R$, $\\sigma_G$ and $\\sigma_B$ are the standard deviation of the red, green and blue channel values of the pixels within the tile $T$.\n" + "After applying a method to an image, we compare the segmented image (i.e., the result) against the ground truth and assess the performance according to the following three metrics:\n" + "\\begin{itemize}\n" + " \\item average tile precision $P$\n" + " \\item average tile recall $R$\n" + " \\item tile count error $C$\n" + "\\end{itemize}\n" + "Let $T$ be a tile on the ground truth $\\mathcal{T}$ with area $A_T$.\n" + "Let $T'$ be the tile in the segmented image which mostly overlaps $T$ and let $A_{T'}$ be the area of $T$; let $A_{T \\cap T'}$ be the overlapping area between $T$ and $T'$.\n" + "Let $n$ and $n'$ the number of tiles respectively in the ground truth and in the segmented image.\n" + "Metrics are defined as:\n" + "\\begin{align}\n" + " P &amp;= \\frac{1}{n} \\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T}} \\frac{A_{T \\cap T'}}{A_{T'}} \\\\\n" + " R &amp;= \\frac{1}{n} \\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T}} \\frac{A_{T \\cap T'}}{A_T} \\\\\n" + " C &amp;= \\frac{|n-n'|}{n}\n" + "\\end{align}"; final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.MULTILINE); final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string); while (matcher.find()) { System.out.println("Full match: " + matcher.group(0)); for (int i = 1; i <= matcher.groupCount(); i++) { System.out.println("Group " + i + ": " + matcher.group(i)); } } } }

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 Java, please visit: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html