\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{Chimichangasguy} \pdfinfo{ /Title (python-regular-expressions.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Chimichangasguy) /Subject (Python Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{36B522} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F2FAF1} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Python Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Chimichangasguy} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/67347/cs/16902/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Chimichangasguy \\ \uline{cheatography.com/chimichangasguy} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 2nd September, 2018.\\ Updated 2nd September, 2018.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Definition}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Regular expression is a tool for matching patterns in text. With the help of regular expression you can find, match and replace text in strings.} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{A regular expression is a special sequence of characters that helps you match or find other strings or sets of strings, using a specialized syntax held in a pattern.} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Module name re is imported to be used.} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{1.09494 cm} x{3.88206 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{White Space Characters}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}n & Newline \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}s & Space \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}t & Tab \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}e & Escape \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}r & Return \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.4977 cm} x{4.4793 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Identifiers}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}d & Any {\bf{single}} character or number \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}D & Anything but a number (non-digit character) \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}s & Space \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}S & Anything but a space \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}w & Any character (A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and underscore) \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}W & Anything but a character \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} . & Any {\bf{single}} character except for a new line \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}b & The white space around words \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}. & A period \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{0.89586 cm} x{4.08114 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Functions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{match()} & Syntax - re.match(pattern, string, \textless{}flag=0\textgreater{}) \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{search()} & For any pattern in the string - only the first match \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{findall()} & Matches all occurrences \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{split()} & Splits the string - forms an array \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{replace()} & To replace one or more characters in a string \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.54747 cm} x{4.42953 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Modifiers}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{x,y\} & We expect x to y integers \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} + & Match one or more occurrences \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ? & Match 0 or 1 occurrence \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} * & Match 0 or more of the preceding expression (eg. x* will match occurrences of x) \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \$ & Match the end of the string \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \textasciicircum{} & Matching the beginning of a string \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} | & Used as OR \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} {[}{]} & Displaying a range \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} () & To group the regular expressions \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}