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    This document provides a quick reference guide for regular expressions (regex). It outlines various regex anchors, literal characters, character groups, counts, comments, conditional subpatterns, recursive patterns, replacements, case foldings and conditional insertions that can be used in regex patterns.

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    This document provides a quick reference guide for regular expressions (regex). It outlines various regex anchors, literal characters, character groups, counts, comments, conditional subpatterns, recursive patterns, replacements, case foldings and conditional insertions that can be used in regex patterns.

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    This document provides a quick reference guide for regular expressions (regex). It outlines various regex anchors, literal characters, character groups, counts, comments, conditional subpatterns, recursive patterns, replacements, case foldings and conditional insertions that can be used in regex patterns.

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    Regex Cheatsheet

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    This document provides a quick reference guide for regular expressions (regex). It outlines various regex anchors, literal characters, character groups, counts, comments, conditional subpatterns, recursive patterns, replacements, case foldings and conditional insertions that can be used in regex patterns.

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    Regular Expressions - Quick Reference Guide

    Anchors Literal Characters


    ^
    Character group contents
    start of line
    $ end of line Letters and digits match exactly axB70 x individual chars
    \b word boundary Some special characters match exactly @-=% x-y character range
    \B not at word boundary [:class:] posix char class
    \A start of subject
    Escape other specials with backslash \. \\ \$ \[
    \G first match in subject
    [^:class:] negated class
    \z end of subject Character Groups
    \Z end of subject Almost any character (usually not newline) . Examples
    or before newline at end [a-zA-Z0-9_]
    Lists and ranges of characters [ ]
    Non-printing characters Any character except those listed [^ ] [[:alnum:]_]
    \a alarm (BEL, hex 07)
    \cx "control-x"
    \e escape (hex 1B) Counts (add ? for non-greedy) Comments
    \f formfeed (hex 0C) 0 or more ("perhaps some") * (?#comment)
    \n newline (hex 0A) 0 or 1 ("perhaps a") ?
    \r carriage return (hex OD)
    \t 1 or more ("some") + Conditional subpatterns
    tab (hex 09)
    \ddd octal code ddd Between "n" and "m" of {n,m} (?(condition)yes-pattern)
    \xhh hex code hh Exactly "n", "n" or more {n}, {n,} (?(condition)yes|no-pattern)
    \x{hhh..} hex code hhh..

    Generic character types Alternation Recursive patterns


    \d decimal digit Either/or | (?n) Numbered
    \D not a decimal digit (?0) (?R) Entire regex
    \s whitespace character
    \S Lookahead and Lookbehind (?&name) Named
    not a whitespace char
    \w "word" character Followed by (?= )
    \W "non-word" character NOT followed by (?! ) Replacements
    POSIX character classes Following (?<= ) $n reference capture
    alnum letters and digits NOT following (?<! )
    alpha letters Case foldings
    ascii character codes 0-127
    blank Grouping \u upper case next char
    space or tab only
    cntrl control characters For capture and counts ( ) \U upper case following
    digit decimal digits Non-capturing (?: ) \l lower case next char
    graph printing chars -space \L lower case following
    lower lower case letters
    Named captures (?<name> )
    print printing chars +space Alternation \E end case folding
    punct printing chars -alnum Back references
    space white space Conditional insertions
    upper
    Numbered \n \gn \g{n}
    upper case letters (?n:insertion)
    word "word" characters Relative \g{-n}
    xdigit hexadecimal digits Named \k<name> (?n:insertion:otherwise)
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