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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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# coding=utf8 # the above tag defines encoding for this document and is for Python 2.x compatibility import re regex = r"<td>In Stock<\/td><td><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"bookId\[]\" value=\"(.+)\"" test_str = ("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n" "Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:39:48 GMT\n" "Server: Apache\n" "X-Pingback: http://www.myloadtest.com/xmlrpc.php\n" "Link: <http://www.myloadtest.com/?p=216>; rel=shortlink\n" "Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT\n" "Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0\n" "Pragma: no-cache\n" "Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent\n" "Content-Length: 8235\n" "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8\n" "Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive\n" "Connection: Keep-Alive\n" "Content-Encoding: gzip\n\n\n" "<!DOCTYPE html> \n" "<html lang=\"en-US\"> \n" "<head>\n" "<meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n" "<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width\">\n\n" "<title>Correlation Challenge &#8211; My Load Test</title>\n\n" "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-content/themes/myloadtest2012j/style.css\">\n" "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-content/themes/myloadtest2012j/styles/header-boxtop-body-bg.css\">\n" "<link rel=\"pingback\" href=\"http://www.myloadtest.com/xmlrpc.php\">\n" "<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,300,700' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>\n" "<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src=\"http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js\"></script><![endif]-->\n" "<link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"My Load Test &raquo; Feed\" href=\"http://www.myloadtest.com/feed/\" />\n" "<link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"My Load Test &raquo; Comments Feed\" href=\"http://www.myloadtest.com/comments/feed/\" />\n" "<link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"My Load Test &raquo; Correlation Challenge Comments Feed\" href=\"http://www.myloadtest.com/training/correlation-challenge/feed/\" />\n" " <script type=\"text/javascript\">\n" " window._wpemojiSettings = {\"baseUrl\":\"http:\\/\\/s.w.org\\/images\\/core\\/emoji\\/72x72\\/\",\"ext\":\".png\",\"source\":{\"concatemoji\":\"http:\\/\\/www.myloadtest.com\\/wp-includes\\/js\\/wp-emoji-release.min.js?ver=4.3\"}};\n" " !function(a,b,c){function d(a){var c=b.createElement(\"canvas\"),d=c.getContext&&c.getContext(\"2d\");return d&&d.fillText?(d.textBaseline=\"top\",d.font=\"600 32px Arial\",\"flag\"===a?(d.fillText(String.fromCharCode(55356,56812,55356,56807),0,0),c.toDataURL().length>3e3):(d.fillText(String.fromCharCode(55357,56835),0,0),0!==d.getImageData(16,16,1,1).data[0])):!1}function e(a){var c=b.createElement(\"script\");c.src=a,c.type=\"text/javascript\",b.getElementsByTagName(\"head\")[0].appendChild(c)}var f,g;c.supports={simple:d(\"simple\"),flag:d(\"flag\")},c.DOMReady=!1,c.readyCallback=function(){c.DOMReady=!0},c.supports.simple&&c.supports.flag||(g=function(){c.readyCallback()},b.addEventListener?(b.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",g,!1),a.addEventListener(\"load\",g,!1)):(a.attachEvent(\"onload\",g),b.attachEvent(\"onreadystatechange\",function(){\"complete\"===b.readyState&&c.readyCallback()})),f=c.source||{},f.concatemoji?e(f.concatemoji):f.wpemoji&&f.twemoji&&(e(f.twemoji),e(f.wpemoji)))}(window,document,window._wpemojiSettings);\n" " </script>\n" " <style type=\"text/css\">\n" "img.wp-smiley,\n" "img.emoji {\n" " display: inline !important;\n" " border: none !important;\n" " box-shadow: none !important;\n" " height: 1em !important;\n" " width: 1em !important;\n" " margin: 0 .07em !important;\n" " vertical-align: -0.1em !important;\n" " background: none !important;\n" " padding: 0 !important;\n" "}\n" "</style>\n" "<link rel='stylesheet' id='yarppWidgetCss-css' href='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-content/plugins/yet-another-related-posts-plugin/style/widget.css?ver=4.3' type='text/css' media='all' />\n" "<link rel='stylesheet' id='contact-form-7-css' href='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-content/plugins/contact-form-7/includes/css/styles.css?ver=4.2.1' type='text/css' media='all' />\n" "<link rel='stylesheet' id='wp-syntax-css-css' href='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-syntax/css/wp-syntax.css?ver=1.0' type='text/css' media='all' />\n" "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.11.3'></script>\n" "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=1.2.1'></script>\n" "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/core.min.js?ver=1.11.4'></script>\n" "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/widget.min.js?ver=1.11.4'></script>\n" "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/tabs.min.js?ver=1.11.4'></script>\n" "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-content/themes/myloadtest2012j/js/sprout.combined.min.js?ver=1.0'></script>\n" "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-content/themes/myloadtest2012j/js/jquery.theme.js?ver=1.0'></script>\n" "<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-content/plugins/google-analyticator/external-tracking.min.js?ver=6.4.9'></script>\n" "<link rel=\"EditURI\" type=\"application/rsd+xml\" title=\"RSD\" href=\"http://www.myloadtest.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd\" />\n" "<link rel=\"wlwmanifest\" type=\"application/wlwmanifest+xml\" href=\"http://www.myloadtest.com/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml\" /> \n" "<link rel='canonical' href='http://www.myloadtest.com/training/correlation-challenge/' />\n" "<link rel='shortlink' href='http://www.myloadtest.com/?p=216' />\n\n" "<script>\n" "var 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