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  • All 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 = /~~TemplateStart~~[\s\S]+?~~TemplateEnd~~/ str = '<table cellSpacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="~~TableIDClass~~" class="ContainerTable"> <thead> <tr class="header"> <td class="TableTitle">~~TableName~~</td> </tr> </thead> <tbody class="~~TableIDClass~~ ClickableTableBody"> ~~TemplateStart~~ <tr data-type="~~Data-Type~~" data-id="~~Data-ID~~" data-date="~~Data-Date~~" data-cost="~~Data-Cost~~" class="TableText clickable AddMee"> <td nowrap class="DateColumn">~~Date~~</td> <td nowrap class="JarColumn"></td> <td nowrap class="CategoryColumn">~~Category~~</td> <td nowrap class="NotesColumn">~~Note~~</td> <td nowrap class="CostColumn">~~DefaultCostDot~~$~~Cost~~</td> </tr> ~~TemplateEnd~~ </tbody> <tfoot> <tr> <td norap colspan="5">$<span class="TableTotal"></span></td> </tr> </tfoot> </table> ' # Print the match result str.match(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