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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • Character Classes
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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]
  • Character class intersection
    [\w&&[^\d]]
  • 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"([-\.\w]+:\/{2,3})(?!.*[.]{2})(?![-.*\.])((?!.*@\.)[-_\w@^=%&:;~+\.]+(?<![-\.]))(\/[-_\w@^=%&$:;/~+\.]+(?<!\.))?[?]?([-_\w=&@$!|~+]+)*[#]?([-_\w=&@$!|~+]+)*", flags=re.IGNORECASE) test_str = ("DB_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost/postgres?timeout=0\n" "# Damn, Daniel!\n\n" "Bob: have you checked https://www.facebook.com?\n" "lorem https://github.com/justsml?tab=activity#top ipsum\n" "smb:///winbox/dfs/ - ipp://printer\n" "leading text chrome-extension://flags??#\n" "s3://buckets/for/all?true=true\n" "s3:///////buckets-o-fun\n" "pkcs11://because-pkcs7-is-weak#only=hash\n" "\\||@@https://www.google.com <- should match when extracting\n" "https://we - this is valid\n" "s3://buckets-o-fun/hi/raw=val&#keep=hashin'?\n" "http://aaa.com.co.com:8080/test?dan=dev#den?\n" "hi. pkcs11://because-pkcs7-is-weak\n" "hi. a://b/c?d=e#f=g && a://b/c?d]\n" "hi. chrome-extension://flags hi. \n" "hi. ms-help://good-luck/index.html hi. \n" "hi. .iris.beep://really/dots. hi. \n" "hi. iris.beep://really/dots?test=qs hi. \n" "---\n" "a://b]/c - Should match `a://b` - it's smallest match.\n" "http://www.c:ool.com.au - this one's tricky, should match auth URIs: proto://user:pass@host. Including cases where the password could be omitted (`proto://user@host`.)\n" "boop://really-/ -- technically domains shouldn't end in dashes or other 'special' chars, but this is technically a valid URI.\n" "---\n" "a://b./c?d. -- bad dns, trailing dot: tricky w/o look-arounds. (Adding an OR pattern would muddle the returned data indexes.) -- should match `a://b`\n\n\n" "Invalid Examples:\n" "https://www...google...com\n" "https://we@.com\n" "https://asdas-.com\n" "http://-apple-.com\n" "a://(b/c\n" "chrome-extension)://flags\n" "ms-help://|good-luck.html\n" ". , ; : ) ] } \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