Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
  • General Tokens
  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
  • Group Constructs
  • Character Classes
  • Flags/Modifiers
  • 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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/
/
g

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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#"[^'"\s.]+\.[^\s'"&]+&[^\s"']+(?!\S)"#).unwrap(); let string = "www.google.com/mom=3&f -H \"Content-Type: google.com/cool?cool1=yes&cool2=no&cool3=no\" \\\\ -H \"Content-Type: google.com/cool?mom=3&f\" \\\\ www.google.com/mom=3&fbom=cbom' \"www.google.com/mom=3&f\" curl -X GET \\\\ -H \"User-Agent: Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 10; SM-A705FN Build/QP1A.190711.020) Test/4.6.4.459\" \\\\ -H \"Authorization: bearer XXX\" \\\\ -H \"x-storefront-id: 1\" \\\\ -H \"x-application-id: 5\" \\\\ -H \"Build: 4.6.4.459\" \\\\ -H \"Platform: Android\" \\\\ -H \"Gender: M\" \\\\ -H \"SearchSegment: 98\" \\\\ -H \"OSVersion: 10\" \\\\ -H \"DeviceId: b147ee89\" \\\\ -H \"pid: bdb5748e\" \\\\ -H \"sid: 5096fd6e\" \\\\ -H \"x-features: FEATURE1_ENABLED\" \\\\ -H \"Accept-Language: tr-TR\" \\\\ -H \"Content-Type: google.com/cool?cool1=yes&cool2=no&cool3=no\" \\\\ google.com/cool?cool1=yes&cool2=no&cool3=no` /^((?!hede).)*$/s ^(?:(?!:hede).)*$ "; // result will be an iterator over tuples containing the start and end indices for each match in the string let result = regex.captures_iter(string); for mat in result { println!("{:?}", mat); } }

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/