\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{dogwith4shoes} \pdfinfo{ /Title (regular-expressions.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (dogwith4shoes) /Subject (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}{0ECF0E} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{EFFCEF} \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{Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{dogwith4shoes} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/130921/cs/26354/}}} \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}dogwith4shoes \\ \uline{cheatography.com/dogwith4shoes} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 15th November, 2021.\\ Updated 8th February, 2021.\\ 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{1.29402 cm} x{3.68298 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Syntax}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} . & Wildcard \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \textasciicircum{} & Start of a string \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \$ & End of a string \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} x* & 0+ repetitions of x \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} x+ & 1+ repetitions of x \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} x? & 0-1 repetitions of x \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} x\{m\} & m repetitions of x \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} x\{m,n\} & m-n repetitions of x, greedy \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} x\{m,n\}? & m-n repetitions of x, non-greedy \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} x|y & x OR y \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {[}\textasciicircum{}x{]} & NOT x \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}a & Literal 'a' \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} x*\{int\} & 'x*' must be int long \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{white} \textless{} x \textgreater{} \textless{} y \textgreater{} & Collocations of x and y \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textless{}x\textgreater{} (\textless{}y\textgreater{}) & Only returns y \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 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}{Whitespace 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}{x{1.09494 cm} x{3.88206 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Functions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{search()} & Somewhere in string \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{findall()} & Somewhere in the string, non-overlapping \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} match() & Beginning of string \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{fullmatch()} & Entire string \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Arguments: pattern, string, \textless{}flag=0\textgreater{}} \tn \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}{Special escape characters}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}A & IS at start of string \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}b & IS at wordbreak \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}B & NOT at wordbreak \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}d & IS {[}0-9{]} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}D & NOT {[}0-9{]} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}s & White space characters \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}S & NOT white space characters \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}w & IS Unicode word character {[}a-ZA-Z0-9\_{]} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}W & NOT Unicode word character \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}Z & IS at end of string \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.59264 cm} x{3.38436 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{.format}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} '\{:n\}'.format(x) & Prints x, padded with n whitespace \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \{:\textless{}n\} & Left justified \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{:\textgreater{}n\} & Right justified \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \{:.nf\} & Show n decimal places \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{'\{:\{width\}\}'.format('x', width=n)} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.4577 cm} x{2.79197 cm} x{1.32733 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Hierarchy}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 1 & Parenthesis & ( ) \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} 2 & Counters & * + ? \{ \} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 3 & Sequences and anchors & \textasciicircum{} \$ \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} 4 & Disjunction & | \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.4577 cm} x{1.41887 cm} x{2.70043 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Flags}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} re.I & \seqsplit{re.IGNORECASE} & \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} re.M & \seqsplit{re.MULTILINE} & \textasciicircum{} \$ match line boundaries \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} re.X & re.VERBOSE & Ignores whitespace \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}