Regular Expressions 101

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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

Regular Expression

/
/
g

Test String

Code Generator

Generated Code

// 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"Kerberos-wsfed:[\s\S]*Mean:\s(\d+)").unwrap(); let string = "Kerberos: Historical: Between 26 and 50 milliseconds: 10262 Between 50 and 100 milliseconds: 658 Between 101 and 200 milliseconds: 9406 Between 201 and 500 milliseconds: 6046 Between 501 milliseconds and 1 second: 1646 Between 1 and 5 seconds: 1399 Between 6 and 10 seconds: 13 Between 11 and 30 seconds: 34 Between 31 seconds and 1 minute: 7 Between 1 minute and 2 minutes: 1 Mean: 268, Mode: 36, Median: 123 Total: 29472 Kerberos-wsfed: Historical: Between 26 and 50 milliseconds: 3151 Between 50 and 100 milliseconds: 129 Between 101 and 200 milliseconds: 650 Between 201 and 500 milliseconds: 411 Between 501 milliseconds and 1 second: 171 Between 1 and 5 seconds: 119 Between 6 and 10 seconds: 4 Between 11 and 30 seconds: 6 Between 1 minute and 2 minutes: 1 Mean: 176, Mode: 33, Median: 37 Total: 4642 ^.*?(?=Kerberos-wsfed:.*Mean:\\s)\\d+"; // 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/