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Python Regex Guide

This document serves as a guide to Python's regex functionalities, detailing various methods such as re.match, re.search, and re.findall, along with their purposes. It also outlines common regex tokens and their meanings, providing a comprehensive overview of how to work with regular expressions in Python. The guide is useful for both beginners and experienced users looking to understand regex operations.

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Python Regex Guide

This document serves as a guide to Python's regex functionalities, detailing various methods such as re.match, re.search, and re.findall, along with their purposes. It also outlines common regex tokens and their meanings, providing a comprehensive overview of how to work with regular expressions in Python. The guide is useful for both beginners and experienced users looking to understand regex operations.

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Python Regex Guide

re.match(pattern, string)
Tries to match a pattern at the beginning of the string. Returns a match object if found, else None.

re.search(pattern, string)
Scans the entire string and returns the first match object if the pattern is found, else None.

re.findall(pattern, string)
Returns all non-overlapping matches of the pattern in the string as a list of strings.

re.finditer(pattern, string)
Returns an iterator yielding match objects for all non-overlapping matches of the pattern.

re.fullmatch(pattern, string)
Checks if the entire string matches the pattern exactly. Returns a match object or None.

re.sub(pattern, repl, string)


Replaces occurrences of the pattern in the string with repl. Returns the new string.

re.split(pattern, string)
Splits the string by the occurrences of the pattern. Returns a list.

re.compile(pattern)
Compiles a regex pattern into a regex object for repeated use. More efficient for multiple operations.

re.escape(string)
Escapes all special regex characters in the string so it can be used literally in a regex pattern.

Common Regex Tokens


.
Matches any character except newline.
^
Matches the start of the string.

$
Matches the end of the string.

*
Matches 0 or more repetitions.

+
Matches 1 or more repetitions.

?
Matches 0 or 1 repetition.

{n}
Matches exactly n repetitions.

{n,}
Matches n or more repetitions.

{n,m}
Matches between n and m repetitions.

[]
Defines a character class. Example: [a-z] matches any lowercase letter.

[^]
Negates a character class. Example: [^0-9] matches anything except digits.

\d
Matches any digit (0-9).

\D
Matches any non-digit.

\w
Matches any word character (letters, digits, underscore).

\W
Matches any non-word character.

\s
Matches any whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines).

\S
Matches any non-whitespace character.

\b
Matches a word boundary (position between word char and non-word char).

\B
Matches a position that is NOT a word boundary.

|
Acts as OR. Example: (cat|dog) matches 'cat' or 'dog'.

()
Capturing group. Returns the matched text.

(?:)
Non-capturing group. Groups regex without capturing.

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