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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)(?<=\W)\$[a-zA-Z_\\\{\}= +']+\$").unwrap(); let 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: \\begin{itemize} \\item $\\mu_{A_T}$ and $\\sigma_{A_T}$, the mean and standard deviation of the tiles area $A_T$, respectively; \\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; \\item \\todo{does it worth?}; \\item \\todo{does it worth?}; \\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 $T$. 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: \\begin{itemize} \\item average tile precision $P$ \\item average tile recall $R$ \\item tile count error $C$ \\end{itemize} Let $T$ be a tile on the ground truth $\\mathcal{T}$ with area $A_T$. 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 $T'$. Let $n$ and $n'$ the number of tiles respectively in the ground truth and in the segmented image. Metrics are defined as: \\begin{align} P &amp;= \\frac{1}{n} \\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T}} \\frac{A_{T \\cap T'}}{A_{T'}} \\\\ R &amp;= \\frac{1}{n} \\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T}} \\frac{A_{T \\cap T'}}{A_T} \\\\ C &amp;= \\frac{|n-n'|}{n} \\end{align} 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: \\begin{itemize} \\item $\\mu_{A_T}$ and $\\sigma_{A_T}$, the mean and standard deviation of the tiles area $A_T$, respectively; \\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; \\item \\todo{does it worth?}; \\item \\todo{does it worth?}; \\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 $T$. 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: \\begin{itemize} \\item average tile precision $P$ \\item average tile recall $R$ \\item tile count error $C$ \\end{itemize} Let $T$ be a tile on the ground truth $\\mathcal{T}$ with area $A_T$. 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 $T'$. Let $n$ and $n'$ the number of tiles respectively in the ground truth and in the segmented image. Metrics are defined as: \\begin{align} P &amp;= \\frac{1}{n} \\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T}} \\frac{A_{T \\cap T'}}{A_{T'}} \\\\ R &amp;= \\frac{1}{n} \\sum_{T \\in \\mathcal{T}} \\frac{A_{T \\cap T'}}{A_T} \\\\ C &amp;= \\frac{|n-n'|}{n} \\end{align}"; // 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/