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Regular Expressions

\ - Escape character; allows you to search for text containing one of the below special characters by preceding it with the backslash

^ - Beginning of text or a line

$ - End of text or a line

• - The preceding character zero or more times

+ - The preceding character one or more times

? - The preceding character zero or one time

. - Any character except newline

\b - Word boundary (such as a space or carriage return)

\B - Non-word boundary

\d - Any digit 0 through 9 (same as [0-9])

\D - Any non-digit character

\f - Form feed

\n - Line feed

\r - Carriage return

\s - Any single whitespace character (same as [ \f\n\r\t\v])

\S - Any single non-whitespace character

\t - Tab

\w - Any letter, number, or the underscore (same as [a-zA-Z0-9_])

\W - Any character other than a letter, number, or underscore

[abcde] - A character set that matches any one of the enclosed characters

[^abcde] - A complemented or negated character set; one that does not match any of the enclosed characters

[a-e] - A character set that matches any one in the range of enclosed characters

[\b] - The literal backspace character (different from \b)

{n} - Exactly n occurrences of the previous character

{n,} - At least n occurrences of the previous character

{n,m} - Between n and m occurrences of the previous character

() - A grouping, which is also stored for later use

x|y - Either x or y