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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

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re = /"|DECLARE[^]+?Outbound| AS[^]+?DISPLAY NAME|\.\.| ON[^]+?;/m str = 'DECLARE ENTITY FOLDER "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D" AS "XW_RTM_AGENT_D" ENTITY "Statistical Outbound"."XW_RTM_AGENT_D" FOLDER ATTRIBUTES ( "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_CONTACT_CENTER", "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_MR", "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_GROUP_NAME", "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_NAME", "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_LOGIN", "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_CTI_PIN", "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_ACTIVE_POS_TYPE" ) DISPLAY NAME "Агенты" ON DESCRIPTION {Для корректной работы в отчет с использованием таблицы "Агенты" можно включать поля из таблиц "Предложение", "Признаки", "Абонент", "Взаимодействие" и "Показатели" и нельзя включать поля из таблиц "Предложение (агрегир)" и "Показатели(агрегир)".} PRIVILEGES ( READ); DECLARE FOLDER ATTRIBUTE "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_CONTACT_CENTER" AS "U_CONTACT_CENTER" LOGICAL ATTRIBUTE "Statistical Outbound"."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_CONTACT_CENTER" DISPLAY NAME "Контактный центр агента" ON PRIVILEGES ( READ); DECLARE FOLDER ATTRIBUTE "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_GROUP_NAME" AS "U_GROUP_NAME" LOGICAL ATTRIBUTE "Statistical Outbound"."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_GROUP_NAME" DISPLAY NAME "Группа агента" ON PRIVILEGES ( READ); DECLARE FOLDER ATTRIBUTE "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_LOGIN" AS "U_LOGIN" LOGICAL ATTRIBUTE "Statistical Outbound"."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_LOGIN" DISPLAY NAME "Логин агента Siebel" ON PRIVILEGES ( READ); DECLARE FOLDER ATTRIBUTE "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_MR" AS "U_MR" LOGICAL ATTRIBUTE "Statistical Outbound"."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_MR" DISPLAY NAME "МР агента" ON PRIVILEGES ( READ); DECLARE FOLDER ATTRIBUTE "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_NAME" AS "U_NAME" LOGICAL ATTRIBUTE "Statistical Outbound"."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_NAME" DISPLAY NAME "ФИО агента" ON PRIVILEGES ( READ); DECLARE FOLDER ATTRIBUTE "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_ACTIVE_POS_TYPE" AS "U_ACTIVE_POS_TYPE" LOGICAL ATTRIBUTE "Statistical Outbound"."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_ACTIVE_POS_TYPE" DISPLAY NAME "Тип должности агента" ON PRIVILEGES ( READ); DECLARE FOLDER ATTRIBUTE "Статистика Outbound".."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_CTI_PIN" AS "U_CTI_PIN" LOGICAL ATTRIBUTE "Statistical Outbound"."XW_RTM_AGENT_D"."U_CTI_PIN" DISPLAY NAME "Логин агента Genesys" ON PRIVILEGES ( READ); ' subst = '' result = str.gsub(re, subst) # Print the result of the substitution puts 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 Ruby, please visit: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Regexp.html