\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{doublehelix} \pdfinfo{ /Title (the-complete-regex.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (doublehelix) /Subject (The complete RegEx 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}{B34B4B} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{FAF3F3} \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{The complete RegEx Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{doublehelix} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/27391/cs/7932/}}} \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}doublehelix \\ \uline{cheatography.com/doublehelix} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 30th January, 2017.\\ Updated 25th February, 2020.\\ 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*}{2} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{0.8 cm} x{7.2 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Anchors (boundaries)}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textasciicircum{} & Start of string or line \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \$ & End of string or line \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}A & Start of input (ignores 'm' flag) \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}Z & End of input (ignores 'm' flag) \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}G & End of the previous match \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}b & Word boundary (any position proceeded or followed - but not both - by a letter, digit or underscore) \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}B & Non-word boundary \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{0.76 cm} x{3.268 cm} x{3.572 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{3}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Character and Sets}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}w & Word & {[}a-zA-Z0-9\_{]} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}W & Non-word & {[}\textasciicircum{}a-zA-Z0-9\_{]} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}d & Digit & {[}0-9{]} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}D & Non-digit & \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}s & Whitespace (Form-feed, tab, vertical-tab, new line, carriage return and space) & {[}\textbackslash{}f\textbackslash{}t\textbackslash{}x0b\textbackslash{}n\textbackslash{}r {]} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 5) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}S & Non-whitespace & \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}x & Hexadecimal digit & \textbackslash{}x00=null; \textbackslash{}x0d=\textbackslash{}r; {[}\textbackslash{}x61-\textbackslash{}x7a{]}={[}a-z{]} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}O & Octal digit & \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} . & Any character (except new line \textbackslash{}n) & \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}---} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{1.36 cm} x{6.64 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Groups}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} (...) & Capture group - captures a set of characters for a later expression \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{(?:...)} & Non-capture group - groups an expression but does not capture. e.g. /((?:foo|fu)bar)/ matches "foobar" or "fubar" without "foo" or "fu" appearing as a captured subpattern \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 6) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{(?=...)} & Lookahead - match on the characters following. e.g. /ab(?=c)/ match "ab" only when followed by "c" \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} (?!...) & Negative lookahead - match on characters that aren't following. e.g. /ab(?!c)/ match "ab" only when NOT followed by "c" \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} (?\textless{}=...) & Positive look-behind assertion. e.g. /(?\textless{}=foo)bar/ matches "bar" when preceded by "foo" \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} (?\textless{}!...) & Negative look-behind assertion. e.g. /(?\textless{}!foo)bar/ - matches "bar" when not preceded by "foo" \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{(?\#...)} & Comment e.g. (?\# This comment is ignored entirely) \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.24 cm} x{5.76 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Unicode character support}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}x0000-\textbackslash{}xFFFF & Unicode hexadecimal character set \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}x00-\textbackslash{}xFF & ASCII hexadecimal character set \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}cA-\textbackslash{}cZ & Control characters \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{Unicode is not fully supported on all platforms. JavaScript prior to ES6 for example allows ASCII hex but not full Unicode hex.} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{0.96 cm} x{7.04 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Special Characters}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}n & New line \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}r & Carriage return \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}t & Tab \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}v & Vertical tab \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}f & Form feed \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{0.88 cm} x{7.12 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Quantifiers}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} * & Zero or more \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} + & One or more \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ? & Zero or One (i.e. optional) \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \{n\} & Exactly 'n' (any number) \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{n,\} & Minimum ('n' or more) \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \{n,m\} & Range ('n' or more, but less or equal to 'm') \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{p{0.8 cm} x{7.2 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Flags (expression modifiers)}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} /m & Milti-line. (Makes \textasciicircum{} and \$ match the start and end of a line respectively) \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} /s & Treat input as a single line. (Makes '.' match new lines as well) \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} /i & Case insensitive pattern matching. \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} /g & Global matching. (Don't stop after first match in a replacement function) \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} /x & Extended matching. (disregard white-space not explicitly escaped, and allow comments starting with \#) \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Escape Characters}} \tn \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{8.4cm}}{In regular expressions, the following characters have special meaning and must be escaped: `\textasciicircum{} \$ {[} \{ ( ) \textless{} \textgreater{} . * \textbackslash{} + | ?` \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 3) Additionally the hyphen (-) and close square bracket ({]}) must be escaped when in an expression set (`{[}...{]}`). \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 3) e.g. `/\textbackslash{}(\textbackslash{}d\{3\}\textbackslash{}) \textbackslash{}d\{4\}{[}\textbackslash{}- {]}\textbackslash{}d\{4\}/` matches "(nnn) nnnn-nnnn" or "(nnn) nnnn nnnn" (where n is a numeric digit).% Row Count 9 (+ 3) } \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}