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    This document provides a regular expressions cheat sheet with descriptions and examples of common regex patterns and characters. It explains what regular expressions are and how they can be used to match text strings. The cheat sheet defines special characters and constructs like periods, asterisks, question marks, brackets, pipes and more that have specific regex meanings for repeating, making optional, grouping and alternation. It also shows how to match word boundaries, whitespace, digits and other character classes.

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    Make Tech Easier

    Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

    Uncomplicating the complicated

    A regular expression is a specific pattern used in computing that provides concise and flexible means to "match"
    (specify and recognize) strings of text, such as particular characters, words, or patterns of characters. Common
    abbreviations for "regular expression" include regex and regexp.
    Wikipedia

    Character

    Description

    Example

    . (dot)

    Match any single


    character, except newline c.t matches "cat", "cut" or "cot."
    (\n)

    * (star)

    Repeat the previous


    expression 0 or more
    times (greedy mode)

    + (plus)

    Repeat the previous


    expression 1 or more
    times.

    12+3 matches "123","1223","12223"

    ? (question
    mark)

    Makes the previous item


    optional.

    ma?ke matches "make", "mke"

    ^ (caret)

    Match from the beginning


    ^he matches "hello", "hell", "help", "he is a boy"
    of the string

    $ (dollar)

    Match from the end of the


    ed$ matches "acted", bed", "greed"
    string

    (...) (round
    bracket)

    Grouping of characters or
    (ak) matches "make", "take", '
    expression

    12*3 matches "13", "123", "1223", "12223".


    It can be used together with . (dot) such as m.*easier to
    match "maketecheasier".

    {n} (curly
    Match the previous item
    bracket, where
    exactly n times
    n >= 1)

    12{3}5 matches "12225"

    {n,m} (n >=1, Match the previous item


    between n and m times
    m > n)

    12{3,5}3 matches 12223, 122223, 1222223

    {n,} (n >=1)

    Match the previous item at


    12{2,}3 matches 1223, 12223, 122223
    least n times

    [...] (square match any single


    character in the bracket
    bracket)

    a[BC]d matches aBcd or abCd

    [^...]

    Match any character


    except for those that are
    defined in the bracket

    a[^b]c matches "aec", "acc", "adc", but not "abc"

    | (pipe)

    Match either the


    expression on the left or
    right of the pipe.

    col(o|ou)r matches "color", "colour"

    - (hypen)

    Specify a range of
    [a-z] matches all lowercase alphabet.
    characters to match. Used
    [A-Z] matches all uppercase alphabet.
    mostly with square
    [0-9] matches all the digit 0 to 9.
    bracket.

    \ (backslash)

    Escape a special

    a\*c matches "a*c".

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    Character

    Description

    Example

    character
    \n, \r,
    \t,\d,
    \w,\s

    match a newline, return,


    tab, digit, word,
    whitespace character
    respectively

    \D, \W, \S

    Negate version of \d,


    \w, \s. Match (not digit),
    (not word), (not
    whitespace) character
    respectively.

    \b...\b

    Match a string at the


    \bTech\b matches the word "Tech" in the phrase "Make
    boundary Can be used to
    Tech Easier".
    match a word in a phrase.

    \B...\B

    Match a string not within


    the boundary. Can be ued \BTech\B matches Tech in MakeTechEasier, but not in
    to match a string within
    Make Tech Easier.
    another string

    [\b]

    When used inside a


    square bracket, \b
    matches a backspace
    character

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