Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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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

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# coding=utf8 # the above tag defines encoding for this document and is for Python 2.x compatibility import re regex = r"^.+ (?:full|incr|manual) .+? (.+?) .*" test_str = ("rspedw03.corpads.local 3085876532 JC_UNIX_FS01_INCR_DD2 JC_FS_DD2 UNIX_FS01_INCR_DD2 incr 02/23/2022 03/29/2022 03/29/2022 disk 1645592426 backup 3013 MB JCBDD2301P.CORPADS.LOCAL\n" "rsuedw01.corpads.local 1020344 JC_DB_DB2 JC_DB Clone_DR full 02/23/2022 04/04/2022 04/04/2022 disk 1645592431 Clone_DR 997 KB MNBDD3302P.corpads.local\n" "rsuedw01.corpads.local 1020344 JC_DB_DB2 full 02/23/2022 04/04/2022 03/30/2022 disk 1645592431 997 KB JCBDD1300P.corpads.local\n" "rsuedw03.corpads.local 12608 MN_UNIX_NP_7_Days MN_DB Clone_DR full 02/23/2022 04/21/2022 04/21/2022 disk 1645592432 Clone_DR 13 KB JCBDD1300P.corpads.local\n") subst = "$1" # You can manually specify the number of replacements by changing the 4th argument result = re.sub(regex, subst, test_str, 0, re.MULTILINE) if result: print (result) # Note: for Python 2.7 compatibility, use ur"" to prefix the regex and u"" to prefix the test string and substitution.

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