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
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re = /^(\D+[路|街|大道|村|队][-－\d]+号)?(\D*)?(.+[幢|栋|号楼])?(.+单元)?([-\d]+室?)?$/m str = '万达茂e座B栋1513 马群街道馨康苑12号楼1单元1003室 南京栖霞区银城KINMA-Q+社区3栋902 和燕路438号城市绿洲花园11幢四单元208室 合班村省电宿舍14幢102室 学仕风华苑33栋503 华电三宿舍27幢215室 尧顺佳园2765栋2单元306 金马路16号6幢三单元401室 江苏南京市栖霞区尧林仙居青山苑17幢601室 仙境路29号50幢一单元302室 尧化门街道新城家园5幢2-603室 江苏南京市栖霞区宁杭公路2号百水芊城秀水坊6幢三单元106室 四季金辉8-3401 临江街64－1号 文澜路6号亚朵酒店' # Print the match result str.scan(re) do |match| puts match.to_s end

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 Ruby, please visit: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Regexp.html