// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml
extern crate regex;
use regex::Regex;
fn main() {
let regex = Regex::new(r"\s*(?:(?:\B[-'&]+|[-'&]+\B|[^-'&[:^punct:]]+)\s*)+").unwrap();
let string = "Good luck!!!!SPRINT I like good deals. I can't lie brand-new stuff---- excites me got& & & & & to say yo, At&t why? a* dash-- apostrophe's''' I can do all-day. But preventing%%%%concatenating is a new**$ballgame but----why--- not?";
let substitution = " ";
// result will be a String with the substituted value
let result = regex.replace_all(string, substitution);
println!("{}", result);
}
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 Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/