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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"(faturou\s|faturamento de\s|faturei\s|de um faturamento )*(mais\sde\s)*(((((R\$)+(\s)*(\d){1,6}(\s)*((\.|\,)*\d{1,3}|k|mil)*)))+|((de\s(\d){1,3}(k|mil)\spara\s(\d){1,3}(k|mil)))+)(\sde\sfaturamento)*(\sem\s(menos\sde\s)*(\d{1,2})\sdias)*(\sfoi o que a minha (aluna|cliente|mentoranda|mentorada)+ faturou)*(\sapós o curso)*" test_str = ("(já\\s)*(como\\s)*(em\\sum\\s[u|ú]nico\\sdia\\s(minha\\smentoreanda\\s)*\n\n\n" "mentorada faturou\n" "Foram mais de R$50.000 após o curso\n" "mentora que já faturou mais de R$ 670(com ou sem espaço)mil\n" "Assim como eu sai de um faturamento de 10k para 300k\n" "mentora que já faturei mais de R$ 670.000,00(com ou sem espaço)mil\n" "Em 2022 R$1950 tudo isso por conta da mudança de posicionamento\n" "Em um único dia minha mentoreanda faturou R$9.600\n" "R$62.000 em 30 dias\n" "R$62k em 30 dias\n" "R$62 k em 30 dias\n" "R$62mil em 30 dias\n" "R$62 mil em 30 dias\n" "R$5.014 foi o que a minha aluna faturou\n" "R$12.000 de faturamento em menos de 15 dias de aplicação\n" "faturou R$62.000 em 30 dias\n" "faturei R$62k em 30 dias\n" "faturamento de R$62 k em 30 dias\n" "R$62mil em 30 dias\n" "R$62 mil em 30 dias\n" "R$5.014 foi o que a minha aluna faturou\n" "R$12.000 de faturamento em menos de 15 dias de aplicação\n" "Esse foi o resultado da @ utilizando o (meu) método\n\n\n\n" "77k em 25 dias de aplicação\n\n\n" "(já\\s|como\\seu\\ssai\\sde\\sum\\s|em\\sum\\s[u|ú]nico\\sdia\\s(minha\\smentoreanda\\s|mentorada\\s))*\n" "Reais\n" "(((R\\$)+(\\s)*(\\d){1,6}(\\s)*((\\.|\\,)*\\d{1,3}|k|mil)*))+\n" "parte decimal\n" "((\\.)(\\d){1,3}|(\\,)(\\d){1,3})*\n" "de tanto a tanto\n" "(de(\\d){1,3}\\spara\\s(\\d){1,3})+\n\n\n" "((((R\\$)+(\\s)*(\\d){1,6}((\\.)(\\d){1,3}|(\\,)(\\d){1,3})*(\\s)*(k|mil)*))+|(de(\\d){1,3}\\spara\\s(\\d){1,3})+)\n\n") matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE) 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