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Regex Cheat Sheet

This document is a cheat sheet for regular expressions, detailing basic patterns, character classes, special sequences, and important patterns. It includes examples of usage and key differences between similar expressions. Additionally, it provides useful resources for further learning about regular expressions.

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Regex Cheat Sheet

This document is a cheat sheet for regular expressions, detailing basic patterns, character classes, special sequences, and important patterns. It includes examples of usage and key differences between similar expressions. Additionally, it provides useful resources for further learning about regular expressions.

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Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

1. Basic Patterns

. Any character except newline

^ Start of line

$ End of line

* Zero or more repetitions

+ One or more repetitions

? Zero or one repetition

{n} Exactly n repetitions

{n,} n or more repetitions

{n,m} Between n and m repetitions

2. Character Classes

[abc] One of a, b, or c

[^abc] Not a, b, or c

[a-z] Lowercase a to z

[A-Z] Uppercase A to Z

[0-9] Digit 0 to 9

3. Special Sequences

\d Any digit
Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

\D Non-digit

\w Word character (letter, digit, underscore)

\W Non-word character

\s Whitespace (space, tab, newline)

\S Non-whitespace

4. Other Important Patterns

| OR

(pattern) Grouping

(?P<name>pattern) Named Group

5. Key Differences with Examples

* vs +: * allows 0 or more, + requires at least 1

\d vs [0-9]: Same effect

\w vs [a-zA-Z0-9_]: Equivalent

\s vs [ \t\n\r\f\v]: Equivalent

^ vs \A: ^ start of line, \A start of entire text

Example Codes:

import re

text = "ab abb abbb a"


Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

re.findall(r'ab*', text) # ['ab', 'abb', 'abbb', 'a']

re.findall(r'ab+', text) # ['ab', 'abb', 'abbb']

re.findall(r'cat|dog', 'I have a cat and a dog') # ['cat', 'dog']

text = """hello world

goodbye world"""

re.findall(r'^goodbye', text, re.M) # ['goodbye']

re.findall(r'\Agoodbye', text) # []

Useful Sites:

- https://regex101.com

- https://regexr.com

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