Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • 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#"(?x)editor\s*\{[^{}"]* # Repeatedly match the key-value pairs (?: # Match from opening to closing double quote for the 'key' "[^\\"]* # Handle escaped characters: \ followed by another character (?: \\. [^\\"]* )* " # Then any whitespace between the 'key' and 'value' \s+ # Match from opening to closing double quote for the 'value' "[^\\"]* # Handle escaped characters: \ followed by another character (?: \\. [^\\"]* )* " # Match everything (especially whitespace) except these chars: [^{}"]* | # Key name may or may not be within quotes "? \w+ "? [^{}"]* \{[^{}"]* (?: "[^\\"]* (?: \\. [^\\"]* )* " \s+ "[^\\"]* (?: \\. [^\\"]* )* " [^{}"]* )* \} [^{}"]* )* \}"#).unwrap(); let string = "\"entity\" { \"id\" \"5040044\" \"classname\" \"weapon_defibrillator_spawn\" \"angles\" \"0 0 0\" \"body\" \"0\" \"disableshadows\" \"0\" \"skin\" \"0\" \"solid\" \"6\" \"spawnflags\" \"3\" \"origin\" \"449.47 5797.25 2856\" editor { \"color\" \"0 0 200\" \"visgroupshown\" \"1\" \"visgroupautoshown\" \"1\" \"logicalpos\" \"[-13268 14500]\" \"helptext\" \"This is a \\\"help\\\" menu.\" } editor { \"color\" \"0 0 200\" \"visgroupshown\" \"1\" \"visgroupautoshown\" \"1\" \"logicalpos\" \"[-13268 14500]\" } editor { \"color\" \"0 0 200\" \"visgroupshown\" \"1\" \"visgroupautoshown\" \"1\" \"logicalpos\" \"[-13268 14500]\" \"specialchars\" \"}\" } editor { \"child\" \"0 0 200\" \"visgroupshown\" \"1\" \"visgroupautoshown\" \"1\" \"logicalpos\" \"[-13268 14500]\" subgroup { \"child\" \"42 42 42\" } } } "; // 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/