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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • 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]
  • 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\d]*?\":{\"[\w]*?\":?\{\"[\w]*?\":[0-9\d]*,\"[\w]*?\":[0-9\d]*,\"[\w]*?\":[0-9\d]*},\"[\w]*\":{\"[\w]*\":[0-9\d]*,\"[\w]*\":[0-9\d]*,\"[\w]*\":[0-9\d]*,\"[\w]*\":[0-9\d]*}}", flags=re.MULTILINE) test_str = "2020-11-04 17:14:29,367 : [INFO ] GW-26-C-1 [c.n.s.s.MyKafkaConsumer:19] [GW-26-C-1] : ConsumerRecord(topic = CBBL_GP, partition = 2, leaderEpoch = 20, offset = 4386, CreateTime = 1604488454631, serialized key size = -1, serialized value size = 1139, headers = RecordHeaders(headers = [], isReadOnly = false), key = null, value = {\"clientUserName\":\"usersms@communitybank.com.bd\",\"test\":false,\"clientCbsSmsId\":\"20201104_051123_S179371_22\",\"txnDateTime\":{\"date\":{\"year\":2020,\"month\":11,\"day\":4},\"time\":{\"hour\":17,\"minute\":7,\"second\":22,\"nano\":0}},\"senderId\":\"COMMUNITY_BANK\",\"acctId\":\"0010112519201\",\"creditDebit\":\"C\",\"amount\":30886,\"cellPhone\":\"8801735654457\",\"sendToNumber\":\"8801735654457\",\"message\":\"Community Bank - Your account 001*******201 has been credited with BDT 30886 (SALARY OCTOBER-2020) on 04-Nov-20 05:14:23 PM BST. Your Current Balance is BDT 32057.38. Thank you.\",\"clientRequestDateTime\":{\"date\":{\"year\":2020,\"month\":11,\"day\":4},\"time\":{\"hour\":17,\"minute\":14,\"second\":14,\"nano\":631000000}},\"expiryDateTime\":{\"date\":{\"year\":2020,\"month\":11,\"day\":5},\"time\":{\"hour\":5,\"minute\":14,\"second\":23,\"nano\":0}},\"retryCount\":1,\"valid\":true,\"validateCell\":false,\"defaultSmsLength\":160,\"exceedDefaultSmsLength\":false,\"telcoLocalPrefix\":\"017\",\"telcoName\":\"GP\",\"status\":\"GW_PENDING\",\"isDirty\":false,\"customerNo\":\"0112519\",\"smsFormat\":\"SMS_FORMAT_DEFAULT\",\"unicode\":0,\"includeResend\":false,\"messagetype\":0,\"smsResultList\":[],\"version\":0,\"active\":1,\"tzName\":\"Asia/Dhaka\"})" 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