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package main import ( "regexp" "fmt" ) func main() { var re = regexp.MustCompile(`(?sm)^@\w+\{.*?^\}`) var str = `@Article{Qin:2013mta, Title = {{Practical corollaries of transverse Ward-Green-Takahashi identities}}, Author = {Qin, Si-Xue and Chang, Lei and Liu, Yu-Xin and Roberts, Craig D. and Schmidt, Sebastian M.}, Journal = {Phys.Lett.}, Year = {2013}, Pages = {384-388}, Volume = {B722}, Archiveprefix = {arXiv}, Bdsk-url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.034}, Doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.034}, Eprint = {1302.3276}, Primaryclass = {nucl-th}, Slaccitation = {%%CITATION = ARXIV:1302.3276;%%} } @Article{Qin:2011xq, Title = {{Investigation of rainbow-ladder truncation for excited and exotic mesons}}, Author = {Qin, Si-xue and Chang, Lei and Liu, Yu-xin and Roberts, Craig D. and Wilson, David J.}, Journal = {Phys.Rev.}, Year = {2012}, Pages = {035202}, Volume = {C85}, Archiveprefix = {arXiv}, Bdsk-url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.85.035202}, Doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.85.035202}, Eprint = {1109.3459}, Primaryclass = {nucl-th}, Slaccitation = {%%CITATION = ARXIV:1109.3459;%%} } @Article{Qin:2011dd, Title = {{Interaction model for the gap equation}}, Author = {Qin, Si-xue and Chang, Lei and Liu, Yu-xin and Roberts, Craig D. and Wilson, David J.}, Journal = {Phys.Rev.}, Year = {2011}, Pages = {042202}, Volume = {C84}, Archiveprefix = {arXiv}, Bdsk-url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.84.042202}, Doi = {10.1103/PhysRevC.84.042202}, Eprint = {1108.0603}, Primaryclass = {nucl-th}, Slaccitation = {%%CITATION = ARXIV:1108.0603;%%} } @Article{Qin:2013ufa, Title = {{Quark Spectral Function and Deconfinement at Nonzero Temperature}}, Author = {Qin, Si-xue and Rischke, Dirk H.}, Journal = {Phys.Rev.}, Year = {2013}, Pages = {056007}, Volume = {D88}, Archiveprefix = {arXiv}, Bdsk-url-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.056007}, Doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.88.056007}, Eprint = {1304.6547}, Primaryclass = {nucl-th}, Slaccitation = {%%CITATION = ARXIV:1304.6547;%%} }` for i, match := range re.FindAllString(str, -1) { fmt.Println(match, "found at index", i) } }

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 Golang, please visit: https://golang.org/pkg/regexp/