Exact match in regex character sets

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Published on 2011-01-08T12:48:50Z Indexed on 2011/01/08 12:53 UTC
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Hi all

Consider the following string

'35=_-235-b-35=35-35=2-135=a-35=123-235=2-35=a-53=1-53=a-553=b'

I'd like to extract everything that matches 35= followed by 1 or 2 characters. What I came up with is the following regex

\d[35]=[A-Za-z0-9]{1,2}

The problem is the character set [35] matches both 35= and 53=. How can I achieve an exact match for a character set?

Any suggestions, or different approaches are very much appreciated!

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