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Regex Notes

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MATCHES:

* zero or more (greedy)


? zero or one (non greedy or lazy)
+ one or more
. any char
[] a range of characters i.e. [aBc] either char 'a' char 'B' or char 'c'
[-]a range of characters i.e. [a-z] ==> all lower case letter from 'a' to 'z'
[-]a range of characters i.e. [0-9] ==> all digits from '0' to '9'
[^abcd] the caret indicates negation here ==> any character except for 'a', 'b',
'c' or 'd'
| or operand
\t tab
\d digit
\D not a digit
\s white space
\S not a white space
\w matches a word character
\W matches a NON word character
{m} exactly 'm' times
{m,n} at least 'm' times and at most 'n'
{m,} at least 'm' and as many as there are
() for capture groups
\ to escape a character i.e. if you want to match a '.' you use \. since the '.'
matches any char
\\ An actual back slash
\[ An actual left bracket

COMBINATIONS:
.* anything
* match the previous element as MANY times as possible (zero or more times) GREEDY
*? match the previous element as FEW times as possible LAZY
(?i) Make the whole search case insensitive

ANCHORS
^ beginning of a line
$ end of a line
\w matches word characters. A word character is a character a-z, A-Z, 0-9,
including _ (underscore)
\W matches NON word characters

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