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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import re regex = re.compile(r"(?:(?<display>[^<>\n]+)<)?(?<local>(?:[^\n \x22,\.:;<>@\[\\\]]{1,64}|[^\n \x22,.:;<>@\[\\\]]{1,32}\.[^\n \x22,.:;<>@\[\\\]]{1,32}|\x22[^\n]{1,62}\x22))@(?<domain>[\w.]+(?:\.\w{1,4})?|\[(?:IPv6)?[\da-fA-F.:]+\])>?", flags=re.MULTILINE) test_str = ("\n\n" "VALID\n" "Ihavea(comment)tosay@thisistrue.com\n" "John doe<john@doe.com>\n" "simple@example.com\n" "very.common@example.com\n" "FirstName.LastName@EasierReading.org\n" "x@example.com\n" "long.email-address-with-hyphens@and.subdomains.example.com\n" "user.name+tag+sorting@example.com\n" "user.name@example.com\n" "name/surname@example.com\n" "admin@example\n" "example@s.example\n" "\" \"@example.org\n" "\"john..doe\"@example.org\n" "mailhost!username@example.org\n" "\"very.(),:;<>[]\\\".VERY.\\\"very@\\\\ \\\"very\\\".unusual\"@strange.example.com\n" "user%example.com@example.org\n" "user-@example.org\n" "postmaster@[123.123.123.123]\n" "postmaster@[IPv6:2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334]\n" "_test@[IPv6:2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334]\n\n" "I❤️CHOCOLATE@example.com\n\n" "INVALID\n" ".hey@boss.com\n" "yo.hi.hello@man.\n" "abc.example.com\n" "john..doe@hi.com\n" "a@b@c@example.com\n" "a\"b(c)d,e:f;g<h>i[j\\k]l@example.com\n" "just\"not\"right@example.com\n" "this is\"not\\allowed@example.com\n" "this\\ still\\\"not\\\\allowed@example.com\n" "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234+x@example.com\n" "i.like.underscores@but_they_are_not_allowed_in_this_part") 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