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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • 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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import re regex = re.compile(r"^([a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])?\.)+[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])?)$", flags=re.MULTILINE) test_str = ("--------- valid ---------\n" "something@something.com\n" "someone@localhost.localdomain\n" "someone@127.0.0.1\n" "a@b.b\n" "a/b@domain.com\n" "{}@domain.com\n" "m*'!%@something.sa\n" "tu!!7n7.ad##0!!!@company.ca\n" "%@com.com\n" "!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~.-@com.com\n" "USER@EXAMPLE.COM\n" "someone@do-ma-in.com\n" "a@p.com\n\n" "-------- invalid --------\n" "somebody@example\n" " a@p.com\n" ".wooly@example.com\n" "wo..oly@example.com\n" "invalid:email@example.com\n" "@somewhere.com\n" "example.com\n" "@@example.com\n" "a space@example.com\n" "something@ex..ample.com\n" "a\\b@c\n" "----- empty string ----\n\n" "-------- space --------\n" " \n" "someone@somewhere.com.\n" "\\\"\\\"test\\blah\\\"\\\"@example.com\n" "\\\"testblah\\\"@example.com\n" "someone@somewhere.com@\n" "someone@somewhere_com\n" "someone@some:where.com\n" ".\n" "F/s/f/a@feo+re.com\n" "some+long+email+address@some+host-weird-/looking.com\n" "a @p.com\n" "a\\u0020@p.com\n" "a\\u0009@p.com\n" "a\\u000B@p.com\n" "a\\u000C@p.com\n" "a\\u2003@p.com\n" "a\\u3000@p.com\n" "ddjk-s-jk@asl-.com\n" "someone@do-.com\n" "somebody@-p.com\n" "somebody@-.com") matches = regex.finditer(test_str) for match_num, match in enumerate(matches, start=1): print(f"Match {match_num} was found at {match.start()}-{match.end()}: {match.group()}") for group_num, group in enumerate(match.groups(), start=1): print(f"Group {group_num} found at {match.start(group_num)}-{match.end(group_num)}: {group}")

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 Python, please visit: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html