Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

by Dave Child (DaveChild) via cheatography.comtlics/5/

Cheatography
Anchors Assertions

A Start of string, or start of line in multi- ?= Lookahead assertion

line pattern ?! Negative lookahead

\A Start of string ?<= Lookbehind assertion

End of string, or end of line in multi-line
$ ?!= or ?<! Negative lookbehind
pattern
?> Once-only Subexpression
\Z End of string
?() Condition [if then]
Word boundary
Condition [if then else]
\B Not word boundary
?# Comment
\< Start of word

\> End of word Quantifiers

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Groups and Ranges

Any character except new line (\n)

(alb) a or b

Group

(?:...) Passive (non-capturing) 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

be Group/subpattern number "x"