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Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (

This document provides a summary of regular expression (regex) metacharacters and their definitions for the .NET framework. It includes metacharacters like ^, $, ., |, {}, [], (), *, +, ?, \. It also covers character escapes like \a, \b, \t, \r, \v, \f, \n, \e, \x20, \u0020. Finally, it defines character classes like ., [], [^], \p{}, \P{}, \w, \W, \s, \S, \d, \D.

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Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (

This document provides a summary of regular expression (regex) metacharacters and their definitions for the .NET framework. It includes metacharacters like ^, $, ., |, {}, [], (), *, +, ?, \. It also covers character escapes like \a, \b, \t, \r, \v, \f, \n, \e, \x20, \u0020. Finally, it defines character classes like ., [], [^], \p{}, \P{}, \w, \W, \s, \S, \d, \D.

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NET Framework)

RegExLib.com Regular Expression Cheat Sheet (.NET)


Metacharacters Defined Metacharacter Examples
MChar Definition Pattern Sample Matches
^ Start of a string. ^abc abc, abcdefg, abc123, ...
$ End of a string. abc$ abc, endsinabc, 123abc, ...
. Any character (except \n newline) a.c abc, aac, acc, adc, aec, ...
| Alternation. bill|ted ted, bill
{...} Explicit quantifier notation. ab{2}c abbc
[...] Explicit set of characters to match. a[bB]c abc, aBc
(...) Logical grouping of part of an expression. (abc){2} abcabc
* 0 or more of previous expression. ab*c ac, abc, abbc, abbbc, ...
+ 1 or more of previous expression. ab+c abc, abbc, abbbc, ...
? 0 or 1 of previous expression; also forces minimal matching when an expression might match several strings within a search string. ab?c ac, abc
\ Preceding one of the above, it makes it a literal instead of a special character. Preceding a special matching character, see below. a\sc ac

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Escaped Char Description
ordinary Characters other than . $ ^ { [ ( | ) ] } * + ? \ match themselves.
characters
\a Matches a bell (alarm) \u0007.
\b Matches a backspace \u0008 if in a []; otherwise matches a word boundary (between \w and \W characters).
\t Matches a tab \u0009.
\r Matches a carriage return \u000D.
\v Matches a vertical tab \u000B.
\f Matches a form feed \u000C.
\n Matches a new line \u000A.
\e Matches an escape \u001B.
\040 Matches an ASCII character as octal (up to three digits); numbers with no leading zero are backreferences if they have only one digit or if they correspond to a capturing group number. (For more information, see
Backreferences.) For example, the character \040 represents a space.
\x20 Matches an ASCII character using hexadecimal representation (exactly two digits).
\cC Matches an ASCII control character; for example \cC is control-C.
\u0020 Matches a Unicode character using a hexadecimal representation (exactly four digits).
\* When followed by a character that is not recognized as an escaped character, matches that character. For example, \* is the same as \x2A.

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Char Class Description
. Matches any character except \n. If modified by the Singleline option, a period character matches any character. For more information, see Regular Expression Options.
[aeiou] Matches any single character included in the specified set of characters.
[^aeiou] Matches any single character not in the specified set of characters.
[0-9a-fA-F] Use of a hyphen () allows specification of contiguous character ranges.
\p{name} Matches any character in the named character class specified by {name}. Supported names are Unicode groups and block ranges. For example, Ll, Nd, Z, IsGreek, IsBoxDrawing.
\P{name} Matches text not included in groups and block ranges specified in {name}.

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\w Matches any word character. Equivalent to the Unicode character categories [\p{Ll}\p{Lu}\p{Lt}\p{Lo}\p{Nd}\p{Pc}]. If ECMAScript-compliant behavior is specified with the ECMAScript option, \w is equivalent to [a-zA-Z_0-9].
\W Matches any nonword character. Equivalent to the Unicode categories [^\p{Ll}\p{Lu}\p{Lt}\p{Lo}\p{Nd}\p{Pc}]. If ECMAScript-compliant behavior is specified with the ECMAScript option, \W is equivalent to [^a-zA-Z_0-9].
\s Matches any white-space character. Equivalent to the Unicode character categories [\f\n\r\t\v\x85\p{Z}]. If ECMAScript-compliant behavior is specified with the ECMAScript option, \s is equivalent to [ \f\n\r\t\v].
\S Matches any non-white-space character. Equivalent to the Unicode character categories [^\f\n\r\t\v\x85\p{Z}]. If ECMAScript-compliant behavior is specified with the ECMAScript option, \S is equivalent to [^ \f\n\r\t\v].
\d Matches any decimal digit. Equivalent to \p{Nd} for Unicode and [0-9] for non-Unicode, ECMAScript behavior.
\D Matches any nondigit. Equivalent to \P{Nd} for Unicode and [^0-9] for non-Unicode, ECMAScript behavior.

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