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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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re = /(?>^|\s+|\W) ( (?>[a-z]\d*|\d+[a-z]? (?>\( ([a-z]\d*|\d+[a-z]?) \)[a-z]? )?) (?>\.(?>[a-z]|\d+[a-z]?))* | (?>M{0,4}(?>CM|CD|D?C{0,3})(?>XC|XL|L?X{0,3})(?>IX|IV|V?I{0,3})) ) (?>\s+|\W|$)/mix str = 'Appendix 1 6.48 CP 198 3.2.4 G 2 1. B. Appendix 1 Annex A 4A.10.1 and 4A.15 4A.21.10 Annex ii A) SECTION IV 52.19A PRACTICE DIRECTION 83— RSC ORDER 109 Rule 4 ADMINISTRATIVE COURT GUIDANCE PRACTICE STATEMENT THE PROTOCOL C.6 Draft modules CIS11: Appendix 13(2)e 2002 no. (a) L7.3.1.R (iii) ' # Print the match result str.scan(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