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Character Classes Basics: Javascript Regex Cheatsheet

This document provides a cheatsheet for JavaScript regular expressions (regex). It outlines regex basics like characters, character classes, groups, lookarounds, quantifiers, alternations, anchors, and flags. It also gives examples for common regex patterns like validating emails, URLs, numbers, and alphanumeric strings.

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Character Classes Basics: Javascript Regex Cheatsheet

This document provides a cheatsheet for JavaScript regular expressions (regex). It outlines regex basics like characters, character classes, groups, lookarounds, quantifiers, alternations, anchors, and flags. It also gives examples for common regex patterns like validating emails, URLs, numbers, and alphanumeric strings.

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JavaScript Regex Cheatsheet

Basics Character Classes


. any character except newline \w \d \s word digit whitespace
a the character a \W \D \S not word digit whitespace
ab the string ab [abc] any of a, b, or c
a|b a or b [^abc] not a, b, or c
a* 0 or more a’s [a-g] characters between a & g
\ escapes a special character
Anchors
Groups & Lookaround ^abc$ start / end of the string
(abc) capture group \b \B word, not-word boundary
\1 backreference to group #1
(?:abc) non-capturing group Escaped Characters
(?=abc) positive lookahead \. \* \\ escaped special characters
(?!abc) negative lookahead \t \n \r tab, linefeed, carriage return

Quantifiers & Alt Common Examples


a* a+ a? 0 or more, 1 or more, 0 or 1 ^\d+$ whole numbers

a{5} a{2,} exactly five, two or more ^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$


alphanumeric with space
a{1,3} between one & three
a+? a{2,}? match as few as possible /\b[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+\.\w{2,4}\b/i
email address
ab|cd match ab or cd
^(https?:\/\/)?([\da-z\.-]+\.[a-z\.]{2,6}|[
Flags \d\.]+)([\/:?=&#]{1}[\da-z\.-]+)*[\/\?]?$
url validation
g global
i case insensitive
m multiline

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