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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]
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    [a-zA-Z]
  • Any single character
    .
  • Alternate - match either a or b
    a|b
  • Any whitespace character
    \s
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    \S
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    \d
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    \D
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    \W
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    (?:...)
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    (...)
  • Zero or one of a
    a?
  • Zero or more of a
    a*
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    a+
  • Exactly 3 of a
    a{3}
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    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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gmis

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// include the latest version of the regex crate in your Cargo.toml extern crate regex; use regex::Regex; fn main() { let regex = Regex::new(r#"(?mis)<script*[^>]*>(.+?)<\/script[^>]*>|<!--*(.+?)-->|<style*[^>]*>(.+?)<\/style[^>]*>|<javascript*[^>]*>(.*?)<\/javascript[^>]*>|<(?:"[^"]*"['"]*|'[^']*'['"]*|[^'">])+>"#).unwrap(); let string = "<!DOCTYPE html> <html itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/QAPage\"> <head> <title>java - Regex to match single quotes being quoted by double-quotes - Stack Overflow</title> <link rel=\"shortcut icon\" href=\"//cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/img/favicon.ico?v=4f32ecc8f43d\"> <link rel=\"apple-touch-icon image_src\" href=\"//cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/img/apple-touch-icon.png?v=c78bd457575a\"> <link rel=\"search\" type=\"application/opensearchdescription+xml\" title=\"Stack Overflow\" href=\"/opensearch.xml\"> <meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"> <meta name=\"twitter:domain\" content=\"stackoverflow.com\"/> <meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"website\" /> <meta property=\"og:image\" itemprop=\"image primaryImageOfPage\" content=\"http://cdn.sstatic.net/Sites/stackoverflow/img/apple-touch-icon@2.png?v=73d79a89bded&a\" /> <meta name=\"twitter:title\" property=\"og:title\" itemprop=\"title name\" content=\"Regex to match single quotes being quoted by double-quotes\" /> <meta name=\"twitter:description\" property=\"og:description\" itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Here is a Regex I have been trying to make work: (?:&quot;[^&quot;]*&quot;[^&quot;]*)*?\\&quot;{1}([^&quot;]*?([&#39;]{1,})[^&quot;]*?)\\&quot; 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class=\"question-hyperlink\">Regex to match single quotes being quoted by double-quotes</a></h1> </div> <div id=\"mainbar\"> <div class=\"question\" data-questionid=\"36183788\" id=\"question\"> <script> var ados = ados || {}; ados.run = ados.run || []; ados.run.push(function () { ados_add_placement(22,8277,\"adzerk1151348596\",4).setZone(43); }); </script> <div class=\"everyonelovesstackoverflow\" id=\"adzerk1151348596\"> </div> <table> <tr> <td class=\"votecell\"> <div class=\"vote\"> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_id_\" value=\"36183788\"> <a class=\"vote-up-off\" title=\"This question shows research effort; it is useful and clear\">up vote</a> <span itemprop=\"upvoteCount\" class=\"vote-count-post \">3</span> <a class=\"vote-down-off\" title=\"This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful\">down vote</a> <a class=\"star-off\" href=\"#\">favorite</a> <div class=\"favoritecount\"><b></b></div> </div> </td> <td class=\"postcell\"> <div> <div class=\"post-text\" itemprop=\"text\"> <p>Here is a Regex I have been trying to make work:</p> <pre><code>(?:\"[^\"]*\"[^\"]*)*?\\\"{1}([^\"]*?([']{1,})[^\"]*?)\\\" </code></pre> <p>It is probably not the most clean nor the most effective way to achieve what I want to do, but I'm almost there, I think.</p> <p><strong>My goal is to match any single quote (') <em>that's being quoted</em> between double-quotes (\")</strong>, so there needs to be an odd amount of double quotes in front of it. I know that for now it only matches the first group of single quotes, that's fine. I will eventually use this regex to replace the first occurence then iterate and use it again to replace the others as long as there are some.</p> <p>Here are a few examples:</p> <ul> <li>\" This is a random sentence <strong>'</strong> with a quote, <strong>the quote should match</strong>\"</li> <li>\" There is no quote here thats the problem\" Anything here <strong>should not match</strong> but now it does: <strong>'</strong> .</li> <li>\" Some text \" some more text \" this <strong>is a quote : ' that should match</strong>\" </li> <li>\" When there is a quote (') here, the other one does not work : \" ' and that's perfect \" even if you remove the first one this : \" (') \" will make it work because of the greedy ( I think ) but ifyou remove those between parenthesis, the other one is matching as of now, which I do not want to happen.</li> <li>Another example would be this one : The following should not work, but it does \"This is being quoted\" not this: (') \" and this is also being quoted \"</li> </ul> <p>Note that I really do not consider myself an expert, a few days ago I knew almost nothing except the classic [a-zA-Z0-9]... Any help is welcome, I may have overlooked something basic.</p> <p>I have been working it here: <a href=\"https://regex101.com/r/aE7iB8/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://regex101.com/r/aE7iB8/1</a></p> </div> <div class=\"post-taglist\"> <a href=\"/questions/tagged/java\" class=\"post-tag\" title=\"show questions tagged &#39;java&#39;\" rel=\"tag\">java</a> <a href=\"/questions/tagged/regex\" class=\"post-tag\" title=\"show questions tagged &#39;regex&#39;\" rel=\"tag\">regex</a> </div> <table class=\"fw\"> <tr> <td class=\"vt\"> <div class=\"post-menu\"><a href=\"/q/36183788\" title=\"short permalink to this question\" class=\"short-link\" id=\"link-post-36183788\">share</a><span class=\"lsep\">|</span><a href=\"/posts/36183788/edit\" class=\"suggest-edit-post\" title=\"\">improve this question</a></div> </td> <td align=\"right\" class=\"post-signature\"> <div class=\"user-info \"> <div class=\"user-action-time\"> <a href=\"/posts/36183788/revisions\" title=\"show all edits to this post\">edited <span title=\"2016-03-23 18:39:27Z\" class=\"relativetime\">Mar 23 at 18:39</span></a> </div> <div class=\"user-gravatar32\"> </div> <div class=\"user-details\"> <div class=\"-flair\"> </div> </div> </div> </td> <td class=\"post-signature owner\"> <div class=\"user-info \"> <div class=\"user-action-time\"> asked <span title=\"2016-03-23 16:35:05Z\" class=\"relativetime\">Mar 23 at 16:35</span> </div> <div class=\"user-gravatar32\"> <a href=\"/users/4425156/rapha%c3%abl\"><div class=\"gravatar-wrapper-32\"><img src=\"https://graph.facebook.com/807064487/picture?type=large\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\"></div></a> </div> <div class=\"user-details\"> <a href=\"/users/4425156/rapha%c3%abl\">Rapha&#235;l</a> <div class=\"-flair\"> <span class=\"reputation-score\" title=\"reputation score \" dir=\"ltr\">133</span><span title=\"7 bronze badges\"><span class=\"badge3\"></span><span class=\"badgecount\">7</span></span> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class=\"votecell\"></td> <td> <div id=\"comments-36183788\" class=\"comments \"> <table> <tbody data-remaining-comments-count=\"0\" data-canpost=\"false\" data-cansee=\"true\" data-comments-unavailable=\"false\" data-addlink-disabled=\"true\"> <tr id=\"comment-60009490\" class=\"comment \"> <td> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class=\" comment-score\"> &nbsp;&nbsp; </td> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class=\"comment-text\"> <div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"comment-body\"> <span class=\"comment-copy\">I think you have an incorrect assumption, and that&#39;s that there needs to be an odd number of double quotes in front of it (depending on what text is allowed). What about the counter-example <code>&#39;&quot;&quot;&quot;\\&#39;&quot;&#39;</code>? Instead of using regex, you should definitely be using a stack.</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href=\"/users/2415524/mbomb007\" title=\"1,447 reputation\" class=\"comment-user\">mbomb007</a> <span class=\"comment-date\" dir=\"ltr\"><span title=\"2016-03-23 19:30:19Z\" class=\"relativetime-clean\">Mar 23 at 19:30</span></span> <span class=\"edited-yes\" title=\"this comment was edited 5 times\"></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr id=\"comment-60010023\" class=\"comment \"> <td> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class=\" comment-score\"> &nbsp;&nbsp; </td> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class=\"comment-text\"> <div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"comment-body\"> <span class=\"comment-copy\">I am not sure I understand what you mean, wouldnt the second &#39; be matched if we check if there are an odd number of &quot; in front of it ?</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href=\"/users/4425156/rapha%c3%abl\" title=\"133 reputation\" class=\"comment-user owner\">Rapha&#235;l</a> <span class=\"comment-date\" dir=\"ltr\"><span title=\"2016-03-23 19:48:00Z\" class=\"relativetime-clean\">Mar 23 at 19:48</span></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr id=\"comment-60010035\" class=\"comment \"> <td> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class=\" comment-score\"> &nbsp;&nbsp; </td> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class=\"comment-text\"> <div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"comment-body\"> <span class=\"comment-copy\">It all depends if you allow nested quotes. Either way, regex is the wrong tool for the job.</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href=\"/users/2415524/mbomb007\" title=\"1,447 reputation\" class=\"comment-user\">mbomb007</a> <span class=\"comment-date\" dir=\"ltr\"><span title=\"2016-03-23 19:48:33Z\" class=\"relativetime-clean\">Mar 23 at 19:48</span></span> <span class=\"edited-yes\" title=\"this comment was edited 2 times\"></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr id=\"comment-60010107\" class=\"comment \"> <td> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class=\" comment-score\"> &nbsp;&nbsp; </td> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class=\"comment-text\"> <div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"comment-body\"> <span class=\"comment-copy\">if I add another double-quote in front of it, it then wouldnt match, which is what I am aiming for: &quot;this is some quoted text&quot; this is not &quot; this is &quot;, maybe I dont understand what you&#39;re meaning</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href=\"/users/4425156/rapha%c3%abl\" title=\"133 reputation\" class=\"comment-user owner\">Rapha&#235;l</a> <span class=\"comment-date\" dir=\"ltr\"><span title=\"2016-03-23 19:50:51Z\" class=\"relativetime-clean\">Mar 23 at 19:50</span></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr id=\"comment-60010239\" class=\"comment \"> <td> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class=\" comment-score\"> &nbsp;&nbsp; </td> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class=\"comment-text\"> <div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"comment-body\"> <span class=\"comment-copy\">Ah,no there wont be nested quotes</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href=\"/users/4425156/rapha%c3%abl\" title=\"133 reputation\" class=\"comment-user owner\">Rapha&#235;l</a> <span class=\"comment-date\" dir=\"ltr\"><span title=\"2016-03-23 19:54:55Z\" class=\"relativetime-clean\">Mar 23 at 19:54</span></span> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div id=\"comments-link-36183788\" data-rep=50 data-anon=true> <a class=\"js-add-link comments-link disabled-link \" title=\"Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid answering questions in comments.\" >add a comment</a><span class=\"js-link-separator dno\">&nbsp;|&nbsp;</span> <a class=\"js-show-link comments-link dno\" title=\"expand to show all comments on this post\" href=# onclick=\"\"></a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id=\"answers\"> <a name=\"tab-top\"></a> <div id=\"answers-header\"> <div class=\"subheader answers-subheader\"> <h2> 2 Answers <span style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"answerCount\">2</span> </h2> <div> <div id=\"tabs\"> <a href=\"/questions/36183788/regex-to-match-single-quotes-being-quoted-by-double-quotes?answertab=active#tab-top\" data-nav-xhref=\"\" title=\"Answers with the latest activity first\" data-value=\"active\"> active</a> <a href=\"/questions/36183788/regex-to-match-single-quotes-being-quoted-by-double-quotes?answertab=oldest#tab-top\" data-nav-xhref=\"\" title=\"Answers in the order they were provided\" data-value=\"oldest\"> oldest</a> <a class=\"youarehere\" href=\"/questions/36183788/regex-to-match-single-quotes-being-quoted-by-double-quotes?answertab=votes#tab-top\" data-nav-xhref=\"\" title=\"Answers with the highest score first\" data-value=\"votes\"> votes</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <a name=\"36186925\"></a> <div id=\"answer-36186925\" class=\"answer accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"36186925\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Answer\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\"> <table> <tr> <td class=\"votecell\"> <div class=\"vote\"> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_id_\" value=\"36186925\"> <a class=\"vote-up-off\" title=\"This answer is useful\">up vote</a> <span itemprop=\"upvoteCount\" class=\"vote-count-post \">2</span> <a class=\"vote-down-off\" title=\"This answer is not useful\">down vote</a> <span class=\"vote-accepted-on load-accepted-answer-date\" title=\"loading when this answer was accepted...\">accepted</span> </div> </td> <td class=\"answercell\"> <div class=\"post-text\" itemprop=\"text\"> <p>Well, here is a regex that works on all your samples - but it's a bit longer and not really perfectly readable. I hope I got all the escapes correctly for the java pattern.</p> <pre><code>(?:(?:^|\\\\G(?&lt;!^)[^'\\\"]*\\\")[^\\\"]*+(?:\"[^\\\"']*\"[^\\\"]*)*+\"|\\\\G(?&lt;!^))[^'\\\"]*+(') </code></pre> <p>This makes use of the <code>\\G</code>-matcher, that will match at the end of the last pattern and of possesive modifiers to avoid unnecessary backtracking.</p> <p>Let's start at the end, <code>[^'\\\"]*+(')</code> matches any character, thats not single or double quote followed by a single quote, that is captured into a group.</p> <p><code>\\\\G(?&lt;!^)</code> matches at the end of the last match (the <code>(?&lt;!^)</code> is used to ensure we are not at the start of the string, as that is the position of <code>\\G</code> in the first run, before anything is matched. So we will just try, if there is another single quote inside the double quotes we were in the last match.</p> <p><code>(?:^|\\\\G(?&lt;!^)[^'\\\"]*\\\")[^\\\"]*+(?:\"[^\\\"']*\"[^\\\"]*)*+\"</code> is used to jump over all sequences that are either outside double quotes or don't contain a single quote. <code>^|\\\\G(?&lt;!^)[^'\\\"]*\\\"</code> matches either the start of the string (first match) or matches until the closing double quote of our last match, if there is not other single quote inside. <code>[^\\\"]*+</code> then matches anything that's not a double quote. <code>(?:\"[^\\\"']*\"[^\\\"]*)*+\"</code> then matches any double quotes that don't contain single quotes and sequences outside single quotes until we reach the double quote that starts our matching for the single quote.</p> <p>But I guess a demo shows it way better than I can explain, so here you are: <a href=\"https://regex101.com/r/tW5xH4/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://regex101.com/r/tW5xH4/1</a></p> </div> <table class=\"fw\"> <tr> <td class=\"vt\"> <div class=\"post-menu\"><a href=\"/a/36186925\" title=\"short permalink to this answer\" class=\"short-link\" id=\"link-post-36186925\">share</a><span class=\"lsep\">|</span><a href=\"/posts/36186925/edit\" class=\"suggest-edit-post\" title=\"\">improve this answer</a></div> </td> <td align=\"right\" class=\"post-signature\"> <div class=\"user-info \"> <div class=\"user-action-time\"> <a href=\"/posts/36186925/revisions\" title=\"show all edits to this post\">edited <span title=\"2016-03-23 19:26:36Z\" class=\"relativetime\">Mar 23 at 19:26</span></a> </div> <div class=\"user-gravatar32\"> </div> <div class=\"user-details\"> <div class=\"-flair\"> </div> </div> </div> </td> <td align=\"right\" class=\"post-signature\"> <div class=\"user-info \"> <div class=\"user-action-time\"> answered <span title=\"2016-03-23 19:20:30Z\" class=\"relativetime\">Mar 23 at 19:20</span> </div> <div class=\"user-gravatar32\"> <a href=\"/users/3836111/sebastian-proske\"><div class=\"gravatar-wrapper-32\"><img src=\"https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/bc8e3526756540925b0536455b280205?s=32&amp;d=identicon&amp;r=PG&amp;f=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\"></div></a> </div> <div class=\"user-details\"> <a href=\"/users/3836111/sebastian-proske\">Sebastian Proske</a> <div class=\"-flair\"> <span class=\"reputation-score\" title=\"reputation score \" dir=\"ltr\">1,352</span><span title=\"1 gold badge\"><span class=\"badge1\"></span><span class=\"badgecount\">1</span></span><span title=\"6 silver badges\"><span class=\"badge2\"></span><span class=\"badgecount\">6</span></span><span title=\"16 bronze badges\"><span class=\"badge3\"></span><span class=\"badgecount\">16</span></span> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class=\"votecell\"></td> <td> <div id=\"comments-36186925\" class=\"comments \"> <table> <tbody data-remaining-comments-count=\"0\" data-canpost=\"false\" data-cansee=\"true\" data-comments-unavailable=\"false\" data-addlink-disabled=\"true\"> <tr id=\"comment-60010668\" class=\"comment \"> <td> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class=\" comment-score\"> &nbsp;&nbsp; </td> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class=\"comment-text\"> <div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"comment-body\"> <span class=\"comment-copy\">Only seems to work in php</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href=\"/users/4425156/rapha%c3%abl\" title=\"133 reputation\" class=\"comment-user owner\">Rapha&#235;l</a> <span class=\"comment-date\" dir=\"ltr\"><span title=\"2016-03-23 20:06:54Z\" class=\"relativetime-clean\">Mar 23 at 20:06</span></span> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div id=\"comments-link-36186925\" data-rep=50 data-anon=true> <a class=\"js-add-link comments-link disabled-link \" title=\"Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. Avoid comments like “+1” or “thanks”.\" >add a comment</a><span class=\"js-link-separator dno\">&nbsp;|&nbsp;</span> <a class=\"js-show-link comments-link dno\" title=\"expand to show all comments on this post\" href=# onclick=\"\"></a> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <script> var ados = ados || {}; ados.run = ados.run || []; ados.run.push(function () { ados_add_placement(22,8277,\"adzerk1282216698\",4).setZone(44); }); </script> <div class=\"everyonelovesstackoverflow\" id=\"adzerk1282216698\"> </div> <a name=\"36186022\"></a> <div id=\"answer-36186022\" class=\"answer\" data-answerid=\"36186022\" itemscope itemtype=\"http://schema.org/Answer\"> <table> <tr> <td class=\"votecell\"> <div class=\"vote\"> <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_id_\" value=\"36186022\"> <a class=\"vote-up-off\" title=\"This answer is useful\">up vote</a> <span itemprop=\"upvoteCount\" class=\"vote-count-post \">1</span> <a class=\"vote-down-off\" title=\"This answer is not useful\">down vote</a> </div> </td> <td class=\"answercell\"> <div class=\"post-text\" itemprop=\"text\"> <p>If you are planning to iterate anyways, I would consider iterating to grab all the things inside double-quotes first, using this regular expression:</p> <p>\"(.*?)\"</p> <p>This does a non-greedy (first) match of everything between a pair of quotation marks. </p> <p>(see other ways to grab things between quotation marks here: <a href=\"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/171480/regex-grabbing-values-between-quotation-marks\">RegEx: Grabbing values between quotation marks</a>) </p> <p>Once you have all the strings inside pairs of double quotes, it will be trivial to match any single quote inside these strings.</p> </div> <table class=\"fw\"> <tr> <td class=\"vt\"> <div class=\"post-menu\"><a href=\"/a/36186022\" title=\"short permalink to this answer\" class=\"short-link\" id=\"link-post-36186022\">share</a><span class=\"lsep\">|</span><a href=\"/posts/36186022/edit\" class=\"suggest-edit-post\" title=\"\">improve this answer</a></div> </td> <td align=\"right\" class=\"post-signature\"> <div class=\"user-info \"> <div class=\"user-action-time\"> answered <span title=\"2016-03-23 18:28:12Z\" class=\"relativetime\">Mar 23 at 18:28</span> </div> <div class=\"user-gravatar32\"> <a href=\"/users/4901005/shane-bergsma\"><div class=\"gravatar-wrapper-32\"><img src=\"https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1IgA2AlHmtQ/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABRU/E9LgXoUQm-Q/photo.jpg?sz=32\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\"></div></a> </div> <div class=\"user-details\"> <a href=\"/users/4901005/shane-bergsma\">Shane Bergsma</a> <div class=\"-flair\"> <span class=\"reputation-score\" title=\"reputation score \" dir=\"ltr\">25</span><span title=\"6 bronze badges\"><span class=\"badge3\"></span><span class=\"badgecount\">6</span></span> </div> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class=\"votecell\"></td> <td> <div id=\"comments-36186022\" class=\"comments \"> <table> <tbody data-remaining-comments-count=\"0\" data-canpost=\"false\" data-cansee=\"true\" data-comments-unavailable=\"false\" data-addlink-disabled=\"true\"> <tr id=\"comment-60007787\" class=\"comment \"> <td> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class=\" comment-score\"> &nbsp;&nbsp; </td> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class=\"comment-text\"> <div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"comment-body\"> <span class=\"comment-copy\">I am currently working on doing that in Java, but it&#39;d still be nice to do and/or know how to do it using a regex !</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href=\"/users/4425156/rapha%c3%abl\" title=\"133 reputation\" class=\"comment-user owner\">Rapha&#235;l</a> <span class=\"comment-date\" dir=\"ltr\"><span title=\"2016-03-23 18:43:34Z\" class=\"relativetime-clean\">Mar 23 at 18:43</span></span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr id=\"comment-60011002\" class=\"comment \"> <td class=\"comment-actions\"> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td class=\" comment-score\"> <span title=\"number of &#39;useful comment&#39; votes received\" class=\"cool\">1</span> </td> <td> &nbsp; </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </td> <td class=\"comment-text\"> <div style=\"display: block;\" class=\"comment-body\"> <span class=\"comment-copy\">Good point to be made here about what a regex is good for, because in a lot of cases it makes more sense to use your program to do the processing. A regex is not (practically) a programming language, it&#39;s one of (hopefully) many tools provided by a programming language.</span> &ndash;&nbsp;<a href=\"/users/1255289/miken32\" title=\"7,846 reputation\" class=\"comment-user\">miken32</a> <span class=\"comment-date\" dir=\"ltr\"><span title=\"2016-03-23 20:17:02Z\" class=\"relativetime-clean\">Mar 23 at 20:17</span></span> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <div id=\"comments-link-36186022\" data-rep=50 data-anon=true> <a class=\"js-add-link comments-link disabled-link \" title=\"Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements. 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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 Rust, please visit: https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/