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Regular Expressions Regex Cheat Sheet

Regular expressions (regex) are used to match patterns in text. This document lists special characters in regex and their meanings, including: * to match zero or more of the previous character ? to match zero or one of the previous character + to match one or more of the previous character . as a wildcard to match any single character [] to match a range or set of characters ^ and $ to match the start or end of a string respectively {n,m} to match a specified number of occurrences of the previous character | for alternation to match either expression separated by the pipe

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Regular Expressions Regex Cheat Sheet

Regular expressions (regex) are used to match patterns in text. This document lists special characters in regex and their meanings, including: * to match zero or more of the previous character ? to match zero or one of the previous character + to match one or more of the previous character . as a wildcard to match any single character [] to match a range or set of characters ^ and $ to match the start or end of a string respectively {n,m} to match a specified number of occurrences of the previous character | for alternation to match either expression separated by the pipe

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Regular Expressions (Regex) Cheat Sheet

Special Characters in Regular Expressions & their meanings


Character Meaning Example

Match zero, one or more of the


* Ah* matches "Ahhhhh" or "A"
previous

Match zero or one of the


? Ah? matches "Al" or "Ah"
previous

Match one or more of the Ah+ matches "Ah" or "Ahhh" but not
+
previous "A"

Used to escape a special


\ Hungry\? matches "Hungry?"
character

. Wildcard character, do.* matches "dog", "door", "dot",


matches any character etc.

( ) Group characters See example for |

[cbf]ar matches "car", "bar", or


"far"
[0-9]+ matches any positive
integer
[ ] Matches a range of characters
[a-zA-Z] matches ascii letters a-z
(uppercase and lower case)
[^0-9] matches any character not
0-9.

| Matche previous OR next (Mon)|(Tues)day matches


character/group "Monday" or "Tuesday"

[0-9]{3} matches "315" but not


"31"
Matches a specified number of
{ } [0-9]{2,4} matches "12", "123",
occurrences of the previous
and "1234"
[0-9]{2,} matches "1234567..."

^http matches strings that begin


Beginning of a string. Or within with http, such as a url.
^
a character range [] negation. [^0-9] matches any character not
0-9.

ing$ matches "exciting" but not


$ End of a string.
"ingenious"

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