Regex Curriculum

regex-curriculum.md

Basics

• Text match
• Asterisks & Pluses
• Question Marks
• Pipe Options
• Character Groups
• Character Ranges
• Range Shorthand
• Counting Characters
• Replacement

Common Patterns

• Dates & Times
• Marketo embed parts
• Log parsing

Special Characters

• . The dot matches any single character.
• \n Matches a newline character (or CR+LF combination).
• \t Matches a tab (ASCII 9).
• \d Matches a digit [0-9].
• \D Matches a non-digit.
• \w Matches an alphanumberic character or hyphen.
• \W Matches a non-alphanumberic character.
• \s Matches a whitespace character.
• \S Matches a non-whitespace character.
• \ Use \ to escape special characters. For example, . matches a dot, and \ matches a backslash.
• ^ Match at the beginning of the input string.
• $ Match at the end of the input string.