// 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"(?six)(\w+|[-.;?!,:])").unwrap();
let string = "However, I now have words like these:
Word-another-word
more_words_like_these
and I would like to be able to retain the integrity of these words as they are (connected) but my current preg_match breaks them down into individual words.";
let substitution = "$1";
// result will be a String with the substituted value
let result = regex.replace_all(string, substitution);
println!("{}", result);
}
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/