Regex Cheatsheet
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The most commonly used metacharacters in Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, and Ruby regular expressions
Metacharacters Meaning
\n Newline
[…] Range or character class
[^…] Not in range or negated character class
. (dot or point) Any character except newline
\w Word character [a-zA-Z0-9_]
\W Nonword character [^a-zA-Z0-9_]
\d Digit character [0-9]
\D Nondigit character [^0-9]
\s Whitespace character [\n\r\f\t]
\S Nonwhitespace character [^\n\r\f\t]
^ (caret) The start of the line of text
$ (dollar) The end of the line of text
\b Word boundary
\B Not-word-boundary
i Case-insensitive matching
m ^ and $ match next to embedded \n
(…) Group subpattern and capture submatch into \1, \2, ..
Contains the result of nth earlier submatch from a parentheses capture group, or a named capture
\n
group
* (asterisk or star) Match 0 or more times
+ (plus) Match 1 or more times
? (question mark) Match 1 or 0 times
{n} Match exactly n times
