Regular Expressions 101

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  • All Tokens
  • Common Tokens
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  • Anchors
  • Meta Sequences
  • Quantifiers
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  • 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

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# coding=utf8 # the above tag defines encoding for this document and is for Python 2.x compatibility import re regex = r"(?!<(script|code)[^>]*?>)((\s)(\?|\!|\;|\:))(?![^<]*?<\/(script|code)>)" test_str = ("<h2>Déroulement de votre examen radiologique ?</h2>\n" "<p>test De l’accueil dans nos locaux à la remise des résultats, toute l’équipe Radiolor, médecins radiologues, manipulateurs et secrétaires, reste à votre service et met tout en œuvre pour que votre temps d’attente soit 66 limité et que votre examen se déroule dans les meilleures conditions. Tous les gestes médicaux sont <a>réalisés dans les conditions d’hygiène strictes ; et : dans </a>le respect des bonnes pratiques.</p>\n" "<p>À votre arrivée , nous vous remercions de passer par le secrétariat et de vous munir de votre ordonnance et de votre carte vitale !.<br />\n" "N’oubliez pas vos anciens examens et <strong>respectez les consignes</strong> qui vous ont été transmises lors de votre prise de <code>rendez-vous : </code>prise de sang, éventuel produit de contraste ou d&rsquo;infiltration prescrit ?.</p>\n" "<!-- meta slider -->\n" "test\n" "</div>\n\n" "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\n" "var timer_metaslider_144 = function() {\n" " var slider = ;!window.jQuery ? window.setTimeout(timer_metaslider_144, 100) : !jQuery.isReady ? window.setTimeout(timer_metaslider_144, 1) : metaslider_144(window.jQuery);\n" " };\n" " timer_metaslider_144();\n" "</script>") matches = re.finditer(regex, test_str, re.IGNORECASE) for matchNum, match in enumerate(matches, start=1): print ("Match {matchNum} was found at {start}-{end}: {match}".format(matchNum = matchNum, start = match.start(), end = match.end(), match = match.group())) for groupNum in range(0, len(match.groups())): groupNum = groupNum + 1 print ("Group {groupNum} found at {start}-{end}: {group}".format(groupNum = groupNum, start = match.start(groupNum), end = match.end(groupNum), group = match.group(groupNum))) # Note: for Python 2.7 compatibility, use ur"" to prefix the regex and u"" to prefix the test string and substitution.

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 Python, please visit: https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html