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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 single character of: a, b, c or d
    [[ab][cd]]
  • 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]
  • Character class intersection
    [\w&&[^\d]]
  • 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)https://internetinthecar-e2e\.((sfr|a1|swisscom|proximus|elisa|tango|telenor-no|telenor-se|yousee|plus|telia|bite-lv|bite-lt|a1-)\.)?iot\.vodafone\.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e-new\.iot\.vodafone\.com/sso/authorize/callback").unwrap(); let string = "(https://internetinthecar-e2e.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.sfr.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.a1.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.swisscom.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.proximus.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.elisa.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.tango.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.telenor-no.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.telenor-se.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.yousee.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.plus.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback|https://internetinthecar-e2e.telia.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback) https://internetinthecar-e2e.bite-lv.iot.vodafone.com/sso/authorize/callback internetinthecar-e2e.bite-lt.iot.vodafone.com internetinthecar-e2e.a1-si.iot.vodafone.com internetinthecar-e2e.cyta.iot.vodafone.com internetinthecar-e2e.elisa-ee.iot.vodafone.com internetinthecar-e2e.epic.iot.vodafone.com internetinthecar-e2e.a1-hr.vodafone.com internetinthecar-e2e.a1-bg.iot.vodafone.com "; // 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/