Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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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"^.*:\s+([A-Z].*)_(\D+)_(\d+).*" test_str = ("dog-Cf-Nox1: Porites_lobata_1381 49.126 572 275 8 1 564 1 564 0.0 563\n" "dog-Cf-Nox1: Porites_australiensis_5912 48.776 572 277 8 1 564 1 564 0.0 560\n" "dog-Cf-Nox1: Astreopora_sp_20372 48.776 572 276 9 1 564 1 563 0.0 555\n" "dog-Cf-Nox1: Montastraea_cavernosa_106939 48.148 567 279 7 5 564 6 564 0.0 555\n" "dog-Cf-Nox1: Seriatopora_hystrix_66126 50.000 554 262 7 18 564 19 564 0.0 553\n" "dog-Cf-Nox1: Porites_australiensis_4812 46.946 573 287 6 1 564 1 565 0.0 553\n" "dog-Cf-Nox1: Stylophora_pistillata_7748 49.009 555 268 7 17 564 18 564 0.0 550\n" "dog-Cf-Nox1: Porites_lobata_724 46.435 575 289 7 1 564 1 567 0.0 548\n" "dog-Cf-Nox1: Acropora_digitifera_16260 46.935 571 288 7 1 564 1 563 0.0 538") subst = "\\1,\\2,\\3" # You can manually specify the number of replacements by changing the 4th argument result = re.sub(regex, subst, test_str, 0, re.MULTILINE) if result: print (result) # 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