Regex Cheat Sheet for Beginners
Anchors, character classes, quantifiers, groups, lookaround, escapes — the essential regex syntax with live examples.
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Regex Cheat Sheet is an interactive, categorized live-preview tool in your browser.
Core syntax
| Category | Pattern | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Anchors | ^abc / abc$ |
Line start / end |
| Character class | [abc] / [^abc] |
a/b/c / not |
| Predefined | \d \w \s |
digit / word / whitespace |
| Quantifiers | * + ? {n,m} |
0+ / 1+ / 0-1 / n to m |
| Groups | (abc) (?:abc) |
capture / non-capturing |
| Backref | \1 |
first capture |
| Escape | \. |
literal dot |
At-a-glance examples
- Email (simplified):
[\w.+]+@[\w.-]+ - URL:
https?://\S+ - ISO date:
\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}
Note
Regex is Unicode mode by default; use [A-Za-z] to restrict to ASCII. For performance, avoid greedy matches and many capture groups.
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