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Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet: by Via

This document provides a cheat sheet on regular expressions (regex). It covers regex anchors, character classes, assertions, quantifiers, escape sequences, groups/ranges, modifiers, and replacement patterns. The cheat sheet acts as a quick reference guide to the main components of regex syntax and usage.

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Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet: by Via

This document provides a cheat sheet on regular expressions (regex). It covers regex anchors, character classes, assertions, quantifiers, escape sequences, groups/ranges, modifiers, and replacement patterns. The cheat sheet acts as a quick reference guide to the main components of regex syntax and usage.

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Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

by Dave Child (DaveChild) via cheatography.com/1/cs/5/


Anchors
^ Start of string, or start of line in multi-line
pattern
\A Start of string
$ End of string, or end of line in multi-line
pattern
\Z End of string
\b Word boundary
\B Not word boundary
\< Start of word
\> End of word
Character Classes
\c Control character
\s White space
\S Not white space
\d Digit
\D Not digit
\w Word
\W Not word
\x Hexadecimal digit
\O Octal digit
POSIX
[:upper:] Upper case letters
[:lower:] Lower case letters
[:alpha:] All letters
[:alnum:] Digits and letters
[:digit:] Digits
[:xdigit:] Hexadecimal digits
[:punct:] Punctuation
[:blank:] Space and tab
[:space:] Blank characters
[:cntrl:] Control characters
[:graph:] Printed characters
[:print:] Printed characters and spaces
[:word:] Digits, letters and underscore

Assertions
?= Lookahead assertion
?! Negative lookahead
?<= Lookbehind assertion
?!= or ?<! Negative lookbehind
?> Once-only Subexpression
?() Condition [if then]
?()| Condition [if then else]
?# Comment
Quantifiers
* 0 or more {3} Exactly 3
+ 1 or more {3,} 3 or more
? 0 or 1 {3,5} 3, 4 or 5
Add a ? to a quantifier to make it ungreedy.
Escape Sequences
\ Escape following character
\Q Begin literal sequence
\E End literal sequence
"Escaping" is a way of treating characters
which have a special meaning in regular
expressions literally, rather than as special
characters.
Common Metacharacters
^ [ . $
{ * ( \
+ ) | ?
< >
The escape character is usually \
Special Characters
\n New line
\r Carriage return
\t Tab
\v Vertical tab
\f Form feed
\xxx Octal character xxx
\xhh Hex character hh

Groups and Ranges
. Any character except new line (\n)
(a|b) a or b
(...) Group
(?:...) Passive (non-capturing) group
[abc] Range (a or b or c)
[^abc] Not a or b or c
[a-q] Lower case letter from a to q
[A-Q] Upper case letter from A to Q
[0-7] Digit from 0 to 7
\x Group/subpattern number "x"
Ranges are inclusive.
Pattern Modifiers
g Global match
i * Case-insensitive
m * Multiple lines
s * Treat string as single line
x * Allow comments and whitespace in
pattern
e * Evaluate replacement
U * Ungreedy pattern
* PCRE modifier
String Replacement
$n nth non-passive group
$2 "xyz" in /^(abc(xyz))$/
$1 "xyz" in /^(?:abc)(xyz)$/
$` Before matched string
$' After matched string
$+ Last matched string
$& Entire matched string
Some regex implementations use \ instead of $.
By Dave Child (DaveChild)
cheatography.com/davechild/
www.addedbytes.com

Published 19th October, 2011.
Last updated 29th June, 2014.
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