Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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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

Regular Expression
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re = /(?m)^([^ ]+) ([^ ]+) (.+?)(?:\s*\.\s)+0,00$/ str = 'ABCD COUCOU...... Test0123.................. . . . 0,00 1000 481010582876 PORTE ASS. GR. . . . . . . . . . 0,00 1001 480120101448 CHARNIERE SCREW MINI2. . . . . . 0,00 1170 481949878366 AVM141-Poignée pour plat Crisp . 0,00 1300 480120101791 CAME PLATE. . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 1301 480120101451 LEVIER. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 1302 480120101452 SUPPORT. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 1303 481231038739 INTERRUPTEUR + INTERS . . . . . 0,00 1304 481231038743 PION PORTE. . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 2460 480120101453 PLAT CRISP SMALL. . . . . . . . 0,00 2550 481246678412 PLATEAU TOURN. TOURNANT 25 cm. . 0,00 2640 481010422369 PLATEAU TOURN. CERCHIO MIBI GR/. 0,00 2641 481946238767 RAIL PLAT TOURN. . . . . . . . . 0,00 3010 481010582875 DOSSERET C+ IXL GR Mini2. . . . 0,00 3320 480120100884 POUSSOIR C+1. . . . . . . . . . 0,00 3321 480120100885 POUSSOIR C+2. . . . . . . . . . 0,00 3322 480120100782 POUSSOIR HINGES. . . . . . . . . 0,00 3500 481010364177 AFFICHEUR APRÈS: 46/10. . . . . 0,00 4040 481213158813 MAGNETRON. . . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 4120 480120100336 TRANSFORMATEUR HT. . . . . . . . 0,00 4200 481212158159 CONDENSATEUR. . . . . . . . . . 0,00 4220 481236158419 MOTEUR TT. . . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 4260 481221838323 DIODE AT. . . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 4400 480120101953 MOTEUR. . . . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 4520 480120101407 ELEM. CHAUFFANT 350W 115V. . . . 0,00 4521 481225998463 ROTISSOIRE. . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 4522 480120101247 PROTECTION GRILL. . . . . . . . 0,00 4800 481068977341 LIMANDE AFFICHEUR - PLAT PUISS. 0,00 4900 480120101164 CORDON SECTEUR. . . . . . . . . 0,00 5000 481010577756 PLATINE CONTROLE FREJA2 ACU GR-. 0,00 5610 480120100531 THERMOSTAT 130C. . . . . . . . . 0,00 6330 480120101578 INTERRUPTEUR. . . . . . . . . . 0,00 6520 481213418008 LAMPE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0,00 ' subst = '' result = str.gsub(re, subst) # Print the result of the substitution puts 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 Ruby, please visit: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Regexp.html