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RegEx |
Description |
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. |
matches any character except newline |
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\ |
escape character |
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\w |
word character [a-zA-Z_0-9] |
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\W |
non-word character [^a-zA-Z_0-9] |
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\d |
Digit [0-9] |
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\D |
non-digit [^0-9] |
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\n |
new line |
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\r |
carriage return |
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\t |
tabulation |
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\s |
white space |
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\S |
non-white space |
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^ |
beginning of a line |
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$ |
end of a line |
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\A |
beginning of the string (multi-line match) |
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\Z |
end of the string (multi-line match) |
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\b |
word boundary, boundary between \w and \W |
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\B |
not a word boundary |
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\< |
beginning of a word |
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\> |
end of a word |
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{n} |
matches exaclty n times |
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{n,} |
matches a minimum of n times |
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{x,y} |
matches a min of x and max of y |
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(a|b) |
‘a’ or ‘b’ |
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* |
matches 0 or more times |
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+ |
matches 1 or more times |
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? |
matches 1 or 0 times |
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*? |
matches 0 or more times, but as few as possible |
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+? |
matches 1 or more times, but as few as possible |
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?? |
matches 0 or 1 time |
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[abc] |
a single character of: a, b, or c |
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[^abc] |
any single character except: a, b, or c |
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[a-z] |
any single character in the range a-z |
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[a-zA-Z] |
any single character in the range a-z or A-Z |
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(…) |
capture everything enclosed |
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a? |
zero or one of a |
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a* |
zero or more of a |
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a+ |
one or more of a |
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a{3} |
exactly 3 of a |
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a{3,} |
3 or more of a |
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a{3,6} |
between 3 and 6 of a |
