Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
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  • Quantifiers
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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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gm

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# If you'd like to omit non-matching lines from the result; add ';d' to the end of the expression. sed -E 's/\s+(?:ST|DR|AVE|TRL|BLVD|LN|CT|RD|CV|CMNS|CRK|XING|SQ|CRST|LNDG|LOOP|OVAL|ROW|TER|TRCE)\b.*//gm;t' <<< "505 BLACKBERRY 135 BEARDSLEY ST 15 HUNT CLUB DR 1223 STATE ROUTE 103 455 STATE RTE 43 206 COUNTY RD 4710 17 E 250TH ST 158 BALLINGER AVE SE 150 BALLINGER AVE S 18 BALLINGER AVE T 1272 ORANGE SUN TRL 291 S MORELAND BLVD 615 RUSSET WOOD LN 1165 MORROCCO CT 1321 S PKWY DR 250 COUNTY RD 25A S 22 SANSTONE RIDGE WAY 55070 MENDOZA TRL 1609 HUNTSMERE AVE DOWN 243 MISTY WOODS CV S 2292 BAYBERRY CMNS 16 KILDEER CRK 40 BEDFORD XING 4 LEXINGTON SQ 113 SPARROWS CRST 1082 MATHOM LNDG 1050 WILLOW RIDGE LOOP 660 REDTOP LOOP 8 MOUNT ROYAL LOOP 805 SIERRA OVAL 3012 NANTUCKET ROW 6 WOODROW AVE 943 DARROW PARK DR 743 BELVEDERE TER 189 WINCHESTER RD 19 WHITE OAK TRCE 890 BLACKJACK RD EXT 767 N EXCALIBUR DR 109 VININGS FOREST LN SE 508 E 141ST ST 85 ROSE LN ST SW"

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 SED, please visit: https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_node/The-_0022s_0022-Command.html