\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{tempusername12346455} \pdfinfo{ /Title (pcre.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (tempusername12346455) /Subject (PCRE 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}{A3A3A3} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F3F3F3} \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{PCRE Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{tempusername12346455} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/170864/cs/35809/}}} \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}tempusername12346455 \\ \uline{cheatography.com/tempusername12346455} \\ \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Published 1st December, 2022.\\ Updated 1st December, 2022.\\ 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}{Assertions}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{(?=...)} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{(?!...)} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{(?\textless{}=...)} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{(?\textless{}!...)} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{(?(condition)...)} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{(?(condition)...|...)} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 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}{Anchors}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textasciicircum{} & Start of string or line \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \$ & End of string, or end of line in multi-line pattern \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}A & Start of string, ignores m flag \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}z & End of string, ignores m flag \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}Z & End of string or char before last new line, ignores m flag \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}b & Word boundary; position between a word character (\textbackslash{}w), and a nonword character (\textbackslash{}W) \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}B & Not word boundary \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}G & End of the previous match or the start of the string for the first match \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) \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}{Flags or Modifiers}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} g & Global match \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} i & Ignore case \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} m & Multiple lines (\textasciicircum{} and \$ match start and end of a line) \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} s & Single line (. matches newline) \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} x & Specifies that whitespace characters in the pattern are ignored except when escaped or inside a character class \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} J & Duplicate group names allowed \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} U & Ungreedy quantifiers \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} A & Anchored, the pattern is forced to match only at the beginning (\textasciicircum{}) \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} E & Anchored, the pattern is forced to match only at the end (\$) \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 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}{Quantifiers}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} a|b & a or b \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} + & 1 or more \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} * & 0 or more \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} ? & 0 or 1 \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} ?? & 0 or 1, as few times as possible (lazy) \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} +? & 1 or more, as few times as possible (lazy) \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} *? & 0 or more, as few times as possible (lazy) \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \{n\} & n times exactly \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \{n,m\} & From n to m times \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \{n,\} & At least n time \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Lazy or Ungreedy means match the pattern the least times as possible. \newline Greedy means match the pattern the most times as possible. \newline Quantifiers (+, *) are greedy by default} \tn \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.14471 cm} x{3.83229 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Groups}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} (...) & Capturing \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} (?P\textless{}obj\textgreater{}...) & Capturing group named "obj" \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} (?P=obj) & Match the named group "obj" \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \textbackslash{}g\{Z\} & Match the named or numbered group Z \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}Y & Match the Y'th captured group \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} (?\textgreater{}...) & Atomic group: This group does not allow any backtracking to occur \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} (?|...) & Duplicate group numbers \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} (?\#...) & Comment between parenthesis \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} (?:...) & Matches but does not capture the 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Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \textbackslash{}Q...\textbackslash{}E & Remove special meaning from a sequence of characters \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.24425 cm} x{3.73275 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Posix Classes}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {[}:xdigit:{]} & Hexadecimal digits \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} {[}:upper:{]} & Uppercase letters \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {[}:lower:{]} & Lowercase letters \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} {[}:alpha:{]} & Letters \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {[}:alnum:{]} & Letters and digits \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} {[}:ascii:{]} & Ascii codes 0 - 127 \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} 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