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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • 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]
  • 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 = /# Time:\s(?<timestamp>.*)\n#.*Id:\s(?<id>.*)\n#\sQuery_time:\s(?<duration>[\d.]*)\s.*time:\s(?<lock_time>[\d.]*)\s.*_sent:\s(?<returned>\d*)\s.*_examined:\s(?<searched>\d*)\n(?<sql>[\s\S]*)/m str = ' # Time: 210607 16:27:16 # User@Host: doctime_db_usr[doctime_db_usr] @ [10.2.0.79] Id: 13021 # Query_time: 20.504504 Lock_time: 0.000233 Rows_sent: 52 Rows_examined: 13827347 SET timestamp=1623083236; SELECT substring( substring_index( uri, \'/\', -1 ) , 1, LENGTH(substring_index( uri, \'/\', -1 )) - 38 ) AS uri, namespace, method, count(*) AS hits FROM user_hits WHERE namespace = \'hospitals\' AND controller = \'queue\' AND method = \'file\' GROUP BY substring( substring_index( uri, \'/\', -1 ) , 1, LENGTH(substring_index( uri, \'/\', -1 )) - 38 ) UNION SELECT uri, namespace, method, count(*) AS hits FROM user_hits WHERE uri LIKE \'%export%\' GROUP BY method ORDER BY hits DESC; ' # Print the match result str.scan(re) do |match| puts match.to_s end

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