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  • Common Tokens
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  • 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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re = /(\<li\>\<a target.+?\>)(.+)(\<\/a\>\<\/li\>)/m str = 'Функция Blue Функция ChrW [VBA] Функция CreateUnoDialog Функция CurDir Функция Дата Функция DateSerial Функция DateValue Функция Day Функция DDB [VBA] Функция Dir Функция Eof Функции обработки ошибок Функция FileAttr Функция FileDateTime Функция FileExists Функция FileLen Функция FormatDateTime [VBA] Функция FormatNumber [VBA] Функция FreeFile Функция FV [VBA] Функция GetAttr Функция Green Функция InStrRev [VBA] Функция Input [VBA] Функция InputBox Функция IPmt [VBA] Функция IRR [VBA] Функция Loc Функция Lof Функция MIRR [VBA] Функция Month Функция MonthName [VBA] Функция NPer [VBA] Функция NPV [VBA] Числовые функции Функция Pmt [VBA] Функция PPmt [VBA] Функция PV [VBA] Функция QBColor Функция Rate [VBA] Функция Red Функция RGB Функция RGB [VBA] Функция Round [VBA] Функция Seek Функция SLN [VBA] Функция StrConv [VBA] Функция StrReverse [VBA] Функция SYD [VBA] Функция WeekDay Функция WeekdayName [VBA]' subst = '$2' 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