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Java Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

This document provides a cheat sheet for regular expressions (regex). It includes summaries of: 1) Common character classes and predefined character classes that can be used in regex patterns. 2) Useful Java classes and methods for working with regex, including Pattern, Matcher, and flags that can be set for patterns. 3) Quantifiers that define how many times characters, character classes or groups can occur in a pattern, such as ?, *, +, {n}, {n,m}.

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Java Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet

This document provides a cheat sheet for regular expressions (regex). It includes summaries of: 1) Common character classes and predefined character classes that can be used in regex patterns. 2) Useful Java classes and methods for working with regex, including Pattern, Matcher, and flags that can be set for patterns. 3) Quantifiers that define how many times characters, character classes or groups can occur in a pattern, such as ?, *, +, {n}, {n,m}.

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Character classes Useful Java classes & methods Quantifiers


[abc] matches a or b, or c. PATTERN
[^abc] negation, matches everything except a, b, or c. A pattern is a compiler representation of a regular expression. Greedy Reluctant Possessive Description
[a-c] range, matches a or b, or c.
Pattern compile(String regex)
[a-c[f-h]] union, matches a, b, c, f, g, h. X? X?? X?+ X, once or not at all.
Compiles the given regular expression into a pattern.
[a-c&&[b-c]] intersection, matches b or c.
[a-c&&[^b-c]] subtraction, matches a. X* X*? X*+ X, zero or more times.
Pattern compile(String regex, int flags)
Compiles the given regular expression into a pattern
X+ X+? X++ X, one or more times.
Predefined character classes with the given flags.

. Any character. boolean matches(String regex) X{n} X{n}? X{n}+ X, exactly n times.
\d A digit: [0-9] Tells whether or not this string matches the given
\D A non-digit: [^0-9] regular expression.
\s A whitespace character: [ \t\n\x0B\f\r] X{n,} X{n,}? X{n,}+ X, at least n times.
\S A non-whitespace character: [^\s] String[] split(CharSequence input)
\w A word character: [a-zA-Z_0-9] Splits the given input sequence around matches of X, at least n but
X{n,m} X{n,m}? X{n,m}+
\W A non-word character: [^\w] this pattern. not more than m times.

String quote(String s) Greedy - matches the longest matching group.


Boundary matches Returns a literal pattern String for the specified String. Reluctant - matches the shortest group.
^ The beginning of a line. Possessive - longest match or bust (no backoff).
$ The end of a line. Predicate<String> asPredicate()
\b A word boundary. Creates a predicate which can be used to match a string.
\B A non-word boundary. Groups & backreferences
\A The beginning of the input. MATCHER
\G The end of the previous match. An engine that performs match operations on a character A group is a captured subsequence of characters which may
\Z The end of the input but for the final terminator, if any. sequence by interpreting a Pattern. be used later in the expression with a backreference.
\z The end of the input. boolean matches()
(...) - defines a group.
Attempts to match the entire region against the pattern.
\N - refers to a matched group.
Pattern flags boolean find()
(\d\d) - a group of two digits.
Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE - enables case-insensitive Attempts to find the next subsequence of the input
(\d\d)/\1- two digits repeated twice.
matching. sequence that matches the pattern.
\1 - refers to the matched group.
Pattern.COMMENTS - whitespace and comments starting
with # are ignored until the end of a line. int start()
Pattern.MULTILINE - one expression can match
multiple lines.
Returns the start index of the previous match.
Logical operations
Pattern.UNIX_LINES - only the '\n' line terminator int end() XY X then Y.
is recognized in the behavior of ., ^, and $. Returns the offset after the last character matched. X|Y X or Y.

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