Regular Expressions 101

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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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# coding=utf8 # the above tag defines encoding for this document and is for Python 2.x compatibility import re regex = r"(?:[\u4E00-\u9FFF\u3400-\u4DBF\uF900-\ufaff\u3040-\u309f\u30a0-\u30ff\u3000-\u303f\uff21-\uff3a\uff41-\uff5a\uff10-\uff19\uff00-\uff0eA-Za-z0-9@.,;!\? 　～♥\\]*)(?P<match>(?:[^\u4E00-\u9FFF\u3400-\u380f\uF900-\ufaff\u3040-\u309f\u30a0-\u30ff\u3000-\u303f\uff21-\uff3a\uff41-\uff5a\uff10-\uff19A-Za-z0-9\r\n]|[人・;皿。゜°うぅ]){3,})(?:[\u4E00-\u9FFF\u3400-\u4DBF\uF900-\ufaff\u3040-\u309f\u30a0-\u30ff\u3000-\u303f\uff21-\uff3a\uff41-\uff5a\uff10-\uff19A-Za-z0-9@.,; 　～♥\\]*)" test_str = ("ふう。お腹いっぱい( ´•౪•`), 試験頑張るぞ＼＼\\\\ ٩( ‘ω’ )و //／／\n" "心の相談は　メール　tiknathan@mail.goo.ne.jp までご連絡ください\n" "ドーピング系浪人生(n=1)\n" "横浜は関内にある「　ＢＷＹ　らっきょ　」に初訪問してまいりました関東スープカレーブームの火付け役となったお店の「　人気ＮＯ.１　チキンカレー　」をいただきました(´∀｀人)\n" "鳥取県倉吉市 倉吉農業高校 3年食品科 （音楽部・茶道部） AKB48大ファン高校生！まゆゆ、中野郁海ちゃん神推し m0326w｡♥｡･ﾟ♡ﾟ･｡♥｡i0820n～現在♥大好きだよ♥ AKBファンの方はフォローお願いします^-^ \\n\\n来春から新社会人・・・の予定(´・ω・｀) nn(｡´-д-)疲れた。。") matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.MULTILINE) for matchNum, match in enumerate(matches, start=1): print ("Match {matchNum} was found at {start}-{end}: {match}".format(matchNum = matchNum, start = match.start(), end = match.end(), match = match.group())) for groupNum in range(0, len(match.groups())): groupNum = groupNum + 1 print ("Group {groupNum} found at {start}-{end}: {group}".format(groupNum = groupNum, start = match.start(groupNum), end = match.end(groupNum), group = match.group(groupNum))) # Note: for Python 2.7 compatibility, use ur"" to prefix the regex and u"" to prefix the test string and substitution.

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