- Regex Cheat Sheet The original cheat. PCRE (C, PHP, R), Perl, Ruby b: Word boundary Most engines: position where one side only is an ASCII letter, digit.
- Perl provides lot of short cut notations to write regular expressions. These short cut notations help us to understand the regex easily and write smaller regular expressions. List of short cut notations. W - Match a 'word' character ( alphanumeric & ) 2. W - Match a non-word character.
- Perl Regular Expressions Tip Sheet Author: Jason Secosky Created Date: 12:33:11 PM.
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When learning regexes, or when you need to use a feature you have not used yet or don't use often, itcan be quite useful to have a place for quick look-up. I hope this Regex Cheat-sheet will provide such aid for you.
Character Classes
Regex Character Classes and Special Character classes.
TODO: add examples w and d matching unicode letters and numebers.
Quantifiers
Perl Regex Cheat Sheet Pdf
'Quantifier-modifier' aka. Minimal Matching
Other
Grouping and capturing
Anchors
Modifiers
Extended
Other Regex related articles
Official documentation
Published on 2015-08-19
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In the comments, please wrap your code snippets within tags and use spaces for indentation.Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.comments powered by DisqusThis document presents a tabular summary of the regular expression (regexp) syntax in Perl, then illustrates it with a collection of annotated examples.
Metacharacters
To present a metacharacter as a data character standing for itself, precede it with In the table above, the characters themselves, in the first column, are links to descriptions of characters in my The ISO Latin 1 character repertoire - a description with usage notes. Note that the physical appearance (glyph) of a character may vary from one device or program or font to another. | Repetition
Read the notation a's as 'occurrences of strings, each of which matches the pattern a'. Read repetition as any of the repetition expressions listed above it. Shortest match means that the shortest string matching the pattern is taken. The default is 'greedy matching', which finds the longest match. The repetition |
Special notations with
|
|
w | matches any single character classified as a 'word' character (alphanumeric or '_') |
W | matches any non-'word' character |
s | matches any whitespace character (space, tab, newline) |
S | matches any non-whitespace character |
d | matches any digit character, equiv. to [0-9] |
D | matches any non-digit character |
Character sets: specialities inside [...]
Different meanings apply inside a character set ('character class') denoted by [...] so that, instead of the normal rules given here, the following apply:
[characters] | matches any of the characters in the sequence |
[x-y] | matches any of the characters from x to y (inclusively) in the ASCII code |
[-] | matches the hyphen character '-' |
[n] | matches the newline; other single character denotations with |
[^something] | matches any character except those that [something] denotes; that is, immediately after the leading '[', the circumflex '^' means 'not' applied to all of the rest |
Examples
| expression | matches... |
|---|---|
abc | abc (that exact character sequence, but anywhere in the string) |
^abc | abc at the beginning of the string |
abc$ | abc at the end of the string |
a|b | either of a and b |
^abc|abc$ | the string abc at the beginning or at the end of the string |
ab{2,4}c | an a followed by two, three or four b's followed by a c |
ab{2,}c | an a followed by at least two b's followed by a c |
ab*c | an a followed by any number (zero or more) of b's followed by a c |
ab+c | an a followed by one or more b's followed by a c |
ab?c | an a followed by an optional b followed by a c; that is, either abc or ac |
a.c | an a followed by any single character (not newline) followed by a c |
a.c | a.c exactly |
[abc] | any one of a, b and c |
[Aa]bc | either of Abc and abc |
[abc]+ | any (nonempty) string of a's, b's and c's (such as a, abba, acbabcacaa) |
[^abc]+ | any (nonempty) string which does not contain any of a, b and c (such as defg) |
dd | any two decimal digits, such as 42; same as d{2} |
w+ | a 'word': a nonempty sequence of alphanumeric characters and low lines (underscores), such as foo and 12bar8 and foo_1 |
100s*mk | the strings 100 and mk optionally separated by any amount of white space (spaces, tabs, newlines) |
abcb | abc when followed by a word boundary (e.g. in abc! but not in abcd) |
perlB | perl when not followed by a word boundary (e.g. in perlert but not in perl stuff) |
Examples of simple use in Perl statements
These examples use very simple regexps only. The intent is just to show contexts where regexps might be used, as well as the effect of some 'flags' to matching and replacements. Note in particular that matching is by default case-sensitive (Abc does not match abc unless specified otherwise).
s/foo/bar/;
replaces the first occurrence of the exact character sequence foo in the 'current string' (in special variable $_) by the character sequence bar; for example, foolish bigfoot would become barlish bigfoot
s/foo/bar/g;
replaces any occurrence of the exact character sequence foo in the 'current string' by the character sequence bar; for example, foolish bigfoot would become barlish bigbart
s/foo/bar/gi;
replaces any occurrence of foocase-insensitively in the 'current string' by the character sequence bar (e.g. Foo and FOO get replaced by bar too)
if(m/foo/)...
tests whether the current string contains the string foo
Date of creation: 2000-01-28. Last revision: 2007-04-16. Last modification: 2007-05-28.
Finnish translation – suomennos: Säännölliset lausekkeet Perlissä.
Regular Expressions In Perl - A Summary With Examples
The inspiration for my writing this document was Appendix : A Summary of Perl Regular Expressions in Pankaj Kamthan's CGI Security : Better Safe than Sorry, and my own repeated failures to memorize the syntax.
Perl Regex Example
PrevNext
When learning regexes, or when you need to use a feature you have not used yet or don't use often, itcan be quite useful to have a place for quick look-up. I hope this Regex Cheat-sheet will provide such aid for you.
Character Classes
Regex Character Classes and Special Character classes.
TODO: add examples w and d matching unicode letters and numebers.
Quantifiers
Perl Regex Cheat Sheet Pdf
'Quantifier-modifier' aka. Minimal Matching
Other
Grouping and capturing
Anchors
Modifiers
Extended
Other Regex related articles
Official documentation
Published on 2015-08-19
Comments
In the comments, please wrap your code snippets within tags and use spaces for indentation.Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.comments powered by DisqusThis document presents a tabular summary of the regular expression (regexp) syntax in Perl, then illustrates it with a collection of annotated examples.
Metacharacters
To present a metacharacter as a data character standing for itself, precede it with In the table above, the characters themselves, in the first column, are links to descriptions of characters in my The ISO Latin 1 character repertoire - a description with usage notes. Note that the physical appearance (glyph) of a character may vary from one device or program or font to another. | Repetition
Read the notation a's as 'occurrences of strings, each of which matches the pattern a'. Read repetition as any of the repetition expressions listed above it. Shortest match means that the shortest string matching the pattern is taken. The default is 'greedy matching', which finds the longest match. The repetition |
Special notations with
|
|
w | matches any single character classified as a 'word' character (alphanumeric or '_') |
W | matches any non-'word' character |
s | matches any whitespace character (space, tab, newline) |
S | matches any non-whitespace character |
d | matches any digit character, equiv. to [0-9] |
D | matches any non-digit character |
Character sets: specialities inside [...]
Different meanings apply inside a character set ('character class') denoted by [...] so that, instead of the normal rules given here, the following apply:
[characters] | matches any of the characters in the sequence |
[x-y] | matches any of the characters from x to y (inclusively) in the ASCII code |
[-] | matches the hyphen character '-' |
[n] | matches the newline; other single character denotations with |
[^something] | matches any character except those that [something] denotes; that is, immediately after the leading '[', the circumflex '^' means 'not' applied to all of the rest |
Examples
| expression | matches... |
|---|---|
abc | abc (that exact character sequence, but anywhere in the string) |
^abc | abc at the beginning of the string |
abc$ | abc at the end of the string |
a|b | either of a and b |
^abc|abc$ | the string abc at the beginning or at the end of the string |
ab{2,4}c | an a followed by two, three or four b's followed by a c |
ab{2,}c | an a followed by at least two b's followed by a c |
ab*c | an a followed by any number (zero or more) of b's followed by a c |
ab+c | an a followed by one or more b's followed by a c |
ab?c | an a followed by an optional b followed by a c; that is, either abc or ac |
a.c | an a followed by any single character (not newline) followed by a c |
a.c | a.c exactly |
[abc] | any one of a, b and c |
[Aa]bc | either of Abc and abc |
[abc]+ | any (nonempty) string of a's, b's and c's (such as a, abba, acbabcacaa) |
[^abc]+ | any (nonempty) string which does not contain any of a, b and c (such as defg) |
dd | any two decimal digits, such as 42; same as d{2} |
w+ | a 'word': a nonempty sequence of alphanumeric characters and low lines (underscores), such as foo and 12bar8 and foo_1 |
100s*mk | the strings 100 and mk optionally separated by any amount of white space (spaces, tabs, newlines) |
abcb | abc when followed by a word boundary (e.g. in abc! but not in abcd) |
perlB | perl when not followed by a word boundary (e.g. in perlert but not in perl stuff) |
Examples of simple use in Perl statements
These examples use very simple regexps only. The intent is just to show contexts where regexps might be used, as well as the effect of some 'flags' to matching and replacements. Note in particular that matching is by default case-sensitive (Abc does not match abc unless specified otherwise).
s/foo/bar/;
replaces the first occurrence of the exact character sequence foo in the 'current string' (in special variable $_) by the character sequence bar; for example, foolish bigfoot would become barlish bigfoot
s/foo/bar/g;
replaces any occurrence of the exact character sequence foo in the 'current string' by the character sequence bar; for example, foolish bigfoot would become barlish bigbart
s/foo/bar/gi;
replaces any occurrence of foocase-insensitively in the 'current string' by the character sequence bar (e.g. Foo and FOO get replaced by bar too)
if(m/foo/)...
tests whether the current string contains the string foo
Date of creation: 2000-01-28. Last revision: 2007-04-16. Last modification: 2007-05-28.
Finnish translation – suomennos: Säännölliset lausekkeet Perlissä.
Regular Expressions In Perl - A Summary With Examples
The inspiration for my writing this document was Appendix : A Summary of Perl Regular Expressions in Pankaj Kamthan's CGI Security : Better Safe than Sorry, and my own repeated failures to memorize the syntax.
Perl Regex Example
Perl Regex Not Match
