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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"((?:\u23F1.\W|[\d]+)(\'|\s|’|‘)*(/|\||\[|-)+)|((/|\||\[)+(\s)*(?:\u23F1)*(\s)*[\d]{1,2}[^x](\s)*(min|mi|m)*)" test_str = ("((?:\\u23F1.\\W|[\\d]+)(\\'|\\s|’|‘)*(/|\\||\\[|-)+)|((/|\\||\\[)+(\\s)*(?:\\u23F1)*(\\s)*[\\d]{1,2}[^x](\\s)*(min|mi|m)*)\n\n" "2ºT | ⏱ 48 min: cruzamento de Raphael Veiga e Felipe Melo cabeceia para fora. \\n\\n#PALxCHA | 3x1\\n#AvantiPalestra \\n#JuntosNoBrasileirão\n" "2ºT | ⏱ 47 min: amarelo para Raphael Veiga. \\n\\n#PALxCHA | 3x1\\n#AvantiPalestra \n" "2ºT | ⏱ 45 min: mais 4 minutos de acréscimos. \\n\\n#PALxCHA | 3x1\\n#AvantiPalestra \n" "2ºT | ⏱ 42 min: cruzamento preciso de Luan do meio-campo e Rony cabeceia para fora. \\n\\n#PALxCHA | 3x1\\n#AvantiPalestra \\n#JuntosNoBrasileirão\n" "2ºT | ⏱ 28 min: substituições 🔄\\n\\n🔼 Entram: L. Esteves e F. Melo \\n🔽 Saem: Wesley e G. Scarpa \n" "2ºT | ⏱ 26 min: amarelo para Wesley. \\n\\n#PALxCHA | 3x1\\n#AvantiPalestra \\n#JuntosNoBrasileirão\n" "Com a saída de Luiz Adriano, Willian passa a ser o capitão do time em campo ©️\\n\\n#PALxCHA | 3x1\\n#AvantiPalestra \\n#JuntosNoBrasileirão https://t.co/PbpAHZH68u\n" "2ºT | ⏱ 25 min: substituição 🔄\\n\\n🔼 Entra: Willian \\n🔽 Sai: Luiz Adriano \\n\\n#PALxCHA | 3x1\\n#AvantiPalestra \\n#JuntosNoBrasileirão\n" "2ºT | ⏱ 21 min: após bate e rebate, Zé Rafael fica com a bola e manda por cima do gol. \\n\\n#PALxCHA | 3x1\\n#AvantiPalestra \\n#JuntosNoBrasileirão\n" "2ºT | ⏱ 9 min: Palmeiras 3x1 Chapecoense. \\n\\n#AvantiPalestra #PALxCHA\\n#JuntosNoBrasileirão\n" "2ºT | ⏱ 3 min: jogada ensaiada em cobrança de escanteio: Gustavo Scarpa cruza na entrada da área para 45' | 2T | +6. Jogo vai aos 51. \\n\\nABC Futebol Clube 3x0 Chapecoense\\n \\n#VamosChape \n" "43' | 2T | Entra Felipe Santana no lugar de Matheus Ribeiro. \\n\\nABC Futebol Clube 3x0 Chapecoense\\n \n" "45' | 2T | +4. Jogo vai aos 49. \\n\\nPalmeiras 3x1 Chapecoense\\n \\n#VamosChape #OrgulhoDeSerChape\n" "35' | 2T | Muda a Chape:\\n\\nEntram ➡️ Bruno Silva e Geuvânio\\nSaem ⬅️Fabinho e Anselmo Ramon \n" "32' | 2T | Adversário cobra falta, mas a bola desvia na barreira e sai em escanteio. \\n\\nPalmeiras 3x1\n" "24' | 2T | QUAAAAAAAASEEEEEEEEEE! \\n\\nRavanelli manda no segundo pau e Anselmo Ramon finaliza de \n" "13' | 2T | Ravanelli tocou para Matheus Ribeiro, que invadiu a área a finalizou na rede, mas pelo lado\n" "7' | 2T | Falta para a Chapecoense na meia-lua da grande área. \\n\\nPalmeiras 3x0 Chapecoense\\n \n" "7' | 1T | Gol do Palmeiras. \\n\\nPalmeiras 1x0 Chapecoense\\n \\n#VamosChape #OrgulhoDeSerChape\n" "2' | 1T | UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!\\n\\nFabinho fica cara a cara com Jailson e finaliza, obrigando grande \n") matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.MULTILINE) 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