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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Character Classes
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  • 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

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import re regex = re.compile(r"(?P<timestamp>[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}:[0-9]{2}.[0-9A-Z]+) (?P<elbName>[a-zA-Z-]+) (?P<clientPort>[0-9.:]+) (?P<backendPort>[0-9.:]+) (?P<request_processing_time>[.0-9-]+) (?P<response_processing_time>[.0-9]+) (?P<elb_status_code>[.0-9-]+) (?P<backend_status_code>[0-9-]+) (?P<received_bytes>[0-9-]+) (?P<sent_bytes>[0-9-]+) (?P<request>[0-9-]+) \"(?P<user_agent>[^\"]+)\" \"(?P<ssl_cipher>[^\"]+)\" (?P<ssl_protocol>[- A-Z0-9a-z.]+)", flags=re.MULTILINE) test_str = ("---ELB LOGS--- \n\n\n" "2015-05-13T23:39:43.945958Z my-loadbalancer 192.168.131.39:2817 10.0.0.1:80 0.000073 0.001048 0.000057 200 200 0 29 \"GET http://www.example.com:80/ HTTP/1.1\" \"curl/7.38.0\" - -\n\n" "2015-05-13T23:39:43.945958Z my-loadbalancer 192.168.131.39:2817 10.0.0.1:80 0.000086 0.001048 0.001337 200 200 0 57 \"GET https://www.example.com:443/ HTTP/1.1\" \"curl/7.38.0\" DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA TLSv1.2\n\n" "2015-05-13T23:39:43.945958Z my-loadbalancer 192.168.131.39:2817 10.0.0.1:80 0.001069 0.000028 0.000041 - - 82 305 \"- - - \" \"-\" - -\n\n" "2015-05-13T23:39:43.945958Z my-loadbalancer 192.168.131.39:2817 10.0.0.1:80 0.001065 0.000015 0.000023 - - 57 502 \"- - - \" \"-\" ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 TLSv1.2\n\n\n" " elb client:port backend:port request_processing_time backend_processing_time response_processing_time elb_status_code backend_status_code received_bytes sent_bytes \"request\" \"user_agent\" ssl_cipher ssl_protocol\n") matches = regex.finditer(test_str) for match_num, match in enumerate(matches, start=1): print(f"Match {match_num} was found at {match.start()}-{match.end()}: {match.group()}") for group_num, group in enumerate(match.groups(), start=1): print(f"Group {group_num} found at {match.start(group_num)}-{match.end(group_num)}: {group}")

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