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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
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    \S
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    \d
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    \D
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    \w
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    \W
  • Non-capturing group
    (?:...)
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    (...)
  • 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
    ^
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    $
  • A word boundary
    \b
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    \B

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Over the years he has repeatedly, and sometimes lavishly, praised the younger lawmaker, often on camera.</p><figure id="media-100000004027791" class="media photo embedded has-adjacency has-lede-adjacency layout-large-horizontal media-100000004027791 ratio-tall" data-media-action="modal" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/10/us/10-BUSHRUBIO2/10-BUSHRUBIO2-articleLarge.jpg" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" aria-label="media" role="group"> <span class="visually-hidden">Photo</span> <div class="image"> <img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/10/us/10-BUSHRUBIO2/10-BUSHRUBIO2-articleLarge.jpg" alt="" class="media-viewer-candidate" data-mediaviewer-src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/10/us/10-BUSHRUBIO2/10-BUSHRUBIO2-superJumbo.jpg" data-mediaviewer-caption="Senator Marco Rubio of Florida at Rivier University in Nashua, N.H., on Wednesday." data-mediaviewer-credit="Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times" itemprop="url" itemid="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/11/10/us/10-BUSHRUBIO2/10-BUSHRUBIO2-articleLarge.jpg"/> <meta itemprop="height" content="400" /> <meta itemprop="width" content="600" /> </div> <figcaption class="caption" itemprop="caption description"> <span class="caption-text">Senator Marco Rubio of Florida at Rivier University in Nashua, N.H., on Wednesday.</span> <span class="credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder"> <span class="visually-hidden">Credit</span> Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times </span> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="169" data-total-count="1270" itemprop="articleBody">In one of many such tributes, Mr. Bush <a title="Charlie Rose interview with Jeb Bush" href="https://youtu.be/P3SG7obQ_Z0?t=1m30s">declared</a> in a 2012 television interview that Mr. Rubio had “the intellectual acumen and the fortitude to be a good president.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="255" data-total-count="1525" itemprop="articleBody">Whether or not the onslaught ever materializes, Mr. Rubio and his team are bracing for it and preparing to counter it by sifting through hours of video footage for instances in which Mr. Bush spoke about Mr. Rubio as an admiring ally, not a political foe.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="339" data-total-count="1864" itemprop="articleBody">They are also telegraphing a warning that has already reached many of Mr. Bush’s donors: Such an assault, they argue, would be beneath the dignity of the Bush name. And Mr. Bush should focus on resurrecting his own candidacy, they say, not on trying to tear down Mr. Rubio, who they contend represents the future of the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/republican_party/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Republican Party" class="meta-org">Republican Party</a>.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="287" data-total-count="2151" itemprop="articleBody">Some Bush donors, campaign aides and Republican operatives are cautioning Mr. Bush and his staff about the dangers of seeking to wound Mr. Rubio, whose career he assiduously nurtured for years when Mr. Bush was governor and Mr. Rubio was a member of the Florida House of Representatives.</p><div id="Moses" class="ad moses-ad nocontent robots-nocontent"><div class="accessibility-ad-header visually-hidden"> <p>Advertisement</p> </div> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-4">Continue reading the main story</a> </div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="165" data-total-count="2316" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-4">“Given their closeness while governing, I find the whole thing baffling,” said Stuart Stevens, a Republican strategist who oversaw Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="102" data-total-count="2418" itemprop="articleBody">“I seem not to be alone,” Mr. Stevens added. “I don’t see any evidence that it’s working.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="263" data-total-count="2681" itemprop="articleBody">Some supporters of Mr. Bush are publicly urging restraint. “At the end of the day, wisdom dictates that an internecine fight between the two is unnecessary, and potentially damaging to both,” said Anthony Scaramucci, a New York financier and Bush fund-raiser.</p> <figure id="presidential-candidates-dashboard" class="interactive promo has-adjacency layout-small"> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-5">Continue reading the main story</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/presidential-candidates-dashboard.html"> <div class="interactive-image-container"> <div class="interactive-image"> <img src="http://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/09/16/us/elections/presidential-candidates-dashboard-1442376909418/presidential-candidates-dashboard-1442376909418-master180-v5.png" /> </div> <div class="interactive-overlay"> <i class="icon sprite-icon interactive-overlay-icon"></i> <span class="interactive-overlay-text"> OPEN Interactive Graphic </span> </div> </div> <h2 class="interactive-headline"> Interactive Graphic: Who’s Winning the Presidential Campaign? </h2> </a> </figure> <p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="249" data-total-count="2930" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-5">Mr. Rubio’s campaign sees a potential benefit: Attacks by Mr. Bush and his allies could engender sympathy for Mr. Rubio, as occurred when Charlie Crist, his Republican rival in the 2010 Senate primary, was perceived as overly hostile to Mr. Rubio.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="203" data-total-count="3133" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-6">Those involved in the Bush camp’s discussions about whether to assail Mr. Rubio said that no firm plan or timeline was in place and that their focus could shift to different rivals in the coming weeks.</p><div id="MiddleRight1" class="ad ad-placeholder nocontent robots-nocontent"><div class="accessibility-ad-header visually-hidden"> <p>Advertisement</p> </div> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-7">Continue reading the main story</a> </div> <div id="MiddleRightN" class="ad text-ad middle-right-ad nocontent robots-nocontent"><div class="accessibility-ad-header visually-hidden"> <p>Advertisement</p> </div> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-7">Continue reading the main story</a> </div><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="318" data-total-count="3451" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-7">But the preoccupation with Mr. Rubio is revealing, suggesting not just fury at his challenge to a former mentor, but also a conviction that rivals like Donald J. Trump and Ben Carson have no chance of winning and will collapse in time for Mr. Bush to rise again. Mr. Rubio, the Bush team expects, will remain standing.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="286" data-total-count="3737" itemprop="articleBody">For many of Mr. Bush’s longest-serving advisers, Mr. Rubio’s run is a betrayal: Mr. Bush backed Mr. Rubio’s bid for House speaker in Florida and persuaded important donors to endorse him for the Senate. A few of Mr. Bush’s supporters have taken to calling Mr. Rubio “Judas.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="154" data-total-count="3891" itemprop="articleBody">In meetings with donors and allies, Mr. Bush’s top aides have pointed to what they describe as a trove of research on Mr. Rubio that they could unleash.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="256" data-total-count="4147" itemprop="articleBody">Any attacks on Mr. Rubio would come primarily from Right to Rise, the “<a title="More articles about Super PACs." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/campaign_finance/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">super PAC</a>” that has raised more than $100 million for Mr. Bush. Its top strategist, Mike Murphy, refused to detail its strategy but did not dispute that Mr. Rubio was in its sights.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="191" data-total-count="4338" itemprop="articleBody" id="story-continues-8">“Part of running for president is you have to put your big boy pants on and get vetted on the issues, so we know we don’t have a dud candidate running against Hillary Clinton,” he said.</p><figure id="1click-FD" class="interactive interactive-embedded has-adjacency limit-small layout-small"> <a class="visually-hidden skip-to-text-link" href="#story-continues-9">Continue reading the main story</a> <figcaption class="interactive-caption"> </figcaption> <div class="interactive-graphic"> <!-- ====================================================== THIS IS A GENERATED TEMPLATE FILE. 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We all support him staying there, because he is far from proving he is ready and experienced enough to be president of the United States in a dangerous time.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="274" data-total-count="4921" itemprop="articleBody">Mr. Murphy’s critique echoed an internal Bush campaign memo outlining Mr. Rubio’s vulnerabilities. Under the headline “Marco is a risky bet,” the memo, which surfaced on Oct. 29, said Mr. Rubio “has never been in charge of anything larger than two dozen people.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="180" data-total-count="5101" itemprop="articleBody">The preparatory work by Right to Rise was described by three people privy to it who insisted on anonymity to preserve their relationships with the group and with the Bush campaign.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="427" data-total-count="5528" itemprop="articleBody">Right to Rise held focus groups in New Hampshire shortly after the Oct. 28 Republican debate, in which, among other things, the participants were quizzed about Mr. Rubio’s missed votes on two Republican priorities: cutting federal funding for Planned Parenthood, which carries out abortions, and <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/17/politics/iran-nuclear-deal-senate-block/">blocking</a> President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran. The responses suggested that both could provide potent lines of attack.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="416" data-total-count="5944" itemprop="articleBody">In an attempt to blunt Mr. Rubio’s appeal and showcase a potential vulnerability against the Democratic nominee in the general election, Mr. Murphy recently showed some Republicans a video portraying Mr. Rubio as too extreme on abortion. A longtime opponent of abortion rights, Mr. Rubio said in a debate in August that he had “never advocated” laws that would allow abortions, even in cases of rape or incest.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="243" data-total-count="6187" itemprop="articleBody">Mr. Murphy has privately said to several people that Right to Rise would be ready to devote up to $20 million to fighting Mr. Rubio, according to several people told of the conversations. 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