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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"([0-9]{1,2}:[0-9]{2}) (AM|PM)(\n)(.*)\n" test_str = ("5:47 PM\n" "[EASY] Panzer Pebble joined the server\n" "5:47 PM\n" "Trigger executed raw command message \"76561199679367168\" Welcome to EASY Company | Level 50+! If you have any issues, please report it by typing !admin (reason) in chat. Come check us out at discord.gg/easycompany. You MUST be level 50 or higher to play on this server and level 75 or higher to play commander.\n" "5:47 PM\n" "Player [EASY] Panzer Pebble switched from None to Allies\n" "5:47 PM\n" "MESSAGE: player [[EASY] Panzer Pebble(76561199679367168)], content [We are trying to populate the server which means special rules apply.\n" "5:56 PM\n" "MESSAGE: player [[EASY] Panzer Pebble(76561199679367168)], content [Vote for the nextmap:\n" "5:59 PM\n" "MESSAGE: player [[EASY] Panzer Pebble(76561199679367168)], content [We are trying to populate the server which means special rules apply.\n" "5:59 PM\n" "MESSAGE: player [[EASY] Panzer Pebble(76561199679367168)], content [This server is under level thresholds control.\n" "6:18 PM\n" "Player [EASY] Panzer Pebble switched from None to Axis\n" "7:28 PM\n" "MESSAGE: player [[EASY] Panzer Pebble(76561199679367168)], content [Vote for the nextmap:\n" "7:48 PM\n" "MASTER CHIEF (Axis) killed [EASY] Panzer Pebble (Allies) with GEWEHR 43\n" "7:49 PM\n" "Yustitsiya (Axis) killed [EASY] Panzer Pebble (Allies) with MP40\n" "9:00 PM\n" "MESSAGE: player [[EASY] Panzer Pebble(76561199679367168)], content [Vote for the nextmap:") subst = "\\g<1>\\g<2> \\g<4>\\n" # You can manually specify the number of replacements by changing the 4th argument result = re.sub(regex, subst, test_str, 0, re.MULTILINE | re.UNICODE) if result: print (result) # 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