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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"^(?!\t)(?:(FULL|SMALL)\W*)?([^\n]+)(.+?)(?=^(?!\t)\w+?|$(?!\n))" test_str = ("\n\n" "Gahriel and Diana are standing in the living room. \n\n\n\n" "FULL: The living room has SOFA and a table. On the table have CUPCAKE and a NOTE at the bottom (or somewhere that doesn’t present the first time we see it.) Gahriel is walking to the kitchen calling out his mom.\n" " Gahriel\n" " Make yourself at home!\n" " Diana \n" " okay!\n" " Gahriel\n" " (calling out his mom)\n" " Mom?\n" " Where is she?\n\n\n" "SMALL- Diana inside the living room with Gabriel. She’s amazed with the picture on the wall related to his mother and young Gahriel. \n\n" " Diana ask\n" " Is this you and your mom?\n\n" " Gahriel (smiling)\n" " Haha, yup.\n" " That’s me.\n\n\n\n" "Diana (yelling and laughing so loud and keep talking)\n" " Diana\n" " Argh.. that’s so cute.\n" " Look at how chubby you are!\n") subst = "<div class=\"PANEL $1\">\\n<div class=\"action\">$2</div></div>\\n\\n" # You can manually specify the number of replacements by changing the 4th argument result = re.sub(regex, subst, test_str, 0, re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL) 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