Regular Expressions Cheat Sheetby Dave Child (DaveChild) via cheatography.com/1/cs/5/

Anchors

^ Start of string, or start of line in multi-linepattern

\A Start of string

$ End of string, or end of line in multi-linepattern

\Z End of string

\b Word boundary

\B Not word boundary

\< Start of word

\> End of word

Character Classes

\c Control character

\s White space

\S Not white space

\d Digit

\D Not digit

\w Word

\W Not word

\x Hexade cimal digit

\O Octal digit

POSIX

[:upper:] Upper case letters

[:lower:] Lower case letters

[:alpha:] All letters

[:alnum:] Digits and letters

[:digit:] Digits

[:xdigit:] Hexade cimal digits

[:punct:] Punctu ation

[:blank:] Space and tab

[:space:] Blank characters

[:cntrl:] Control characters

[:graph:] Printed characters

[:print:] Printed characters and spaces

[:word:] Digits, letters and underscore

Assertions

?= Lookahead assertion

?! Negative lookahead

?<= Lookbehind assertion

?!= or ?<! Negative lookbehind

?> Once-only Subexp ression

?() Condition [if then]

?()| Condition [if then else]

?# Comment

Quanti fiers

* 0 or more {3} Exactly 3

+ 1 or more {3,} 3 or more

? 0 or 1 {3,5} 3, 4 or 5

Add a ? to a quantifier to make it ungreedy.

Escape Sequences

\ Escape following character

\Q Begin literal sequence

\E End literal sequence

" Esc api ng" is a way of treating characterswhich have a special meaning in regularexpres sions literally, rather than as specialcharac ters.

Common Metach ara cters

^ [ . $

{ * ( \

+ ) | ?

< >

The escape character is usually \

Special Characters

\n New line

\r Carriage return

\t Tab

\v Vertical tab

\f Form feed

\xxx Octal character xxx

\xhh Hex character hh

Groups and Ranges

. Any character except new line (\n)

(a|b) a or b

(...) Group

(?:...) Passive (non-c apt uring) group

[abc] Range (a or b or c)

[^abc] Not (a or b or c)

[a-q] Lower case letter from a to q

[A-Q] Upper case letter from A to Q

[0-7] Digit from 0 to 7

\x Group/ sub pattern number " x"

Ranges are inclusive.

Pattern Modifiers

g Global match

i * Case-i nse nsitive

m * Multiple lines

s * Treat string as single line

x * Allow comments and whitespace inpattern

e * Evaluate replac ement

U * Ungreedy pattern

* PCRE modifier

String Replac ement

$n nth non-pa ssive group

$2 " xyz " in /^(abc (xy z))$/

$1 " xyz " in /^(?:a bc) (xyz)$/

$` Before matched string

$' After matched string

$+ Last matched string

$& Entire matched string

Some regex implem ent ations use \ instead of $.

By Dave Child (DaveChild)cheatography.com/davechild/www.addedbytes.com

Published 19th October, 2011.Last updated 2nd January, 2015.Page 1 of 1.

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String

RegExp

/abc/

/ab*c/ /Chapter (\d+)\.\d*/

/abc/

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/ab*c/

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/Chapter (\d+)\.\d*/

\d

+

\d

*

?:

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(?:\d+)

RegExp test exec String match replace search split

test search

exec match exec match

RegExp

exec null false

exec

myArray

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/d(b+)d/g

lastIndex

/a(b)c/

Array [1] [n]

replace() $1 $2

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re = /\w+\s/g

m m ^ $

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string.split() string.replace()

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(?: \d{3} | \(

 \d{3} \) )

([‐\/\.]) \d{3}

\1 \d{4}

Change RegExp.input

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

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