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  1. import re
  2.  
  3. regex = r"\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{2}(?:(?!\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{2}).)*string(?:(?!string|\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{2}).)*\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{2}"
  4.  
  5. test_str = """01/20/20\n\n"
  6. 	"string\n\n"
  7. 	"01/21/20\n\n"
  8. 	"01/20/20\n\n"
  9. 	"this isn't the phrase you're looking for\n\n"
  10. 	"01/21/20\n\n"
  11. 	"string"""
  12.  
  13. print(re.findall(regex, test_str, re.DOTALL))
Success #stdin #stdout 0.02s 9752KB
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stdin 
Standard input is empty
stdout 
['01/20/20\n\n"\n\t"string\n\n"\n\t"01/21/20']
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language:
Python 3 (python  3.12)
created:
5 years ago
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