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Pattern
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Presets

Character classes

Any character (except newline)
h.t matches hat, hit
Any digit (0-9)
Any non-digit
Word char (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _)
Non-word char
Whitespace
Non-whitespace
Any of a, b, or c
None of a, b, c
Range a through z

Anchors

Start of string / line (m flag)
End of string / line (m flag)
Word boundary
Non-word boundary

Quantifiers

0 or more (greedy)
1 or more (greedy)
0 or 1 (also makes others lazy)
Exactly n
n or more
Between n and m
Lazy 0 or more
Lazy 1 or more

Groups

Capturing group
Non-capturing group
Named group
Back-reference to group 1
Positive lookahead
Negative lookahead
Positive lookbehind
Negative lookbehind

Escapes

Literal dot
Literal backslash
Newline
Tab
Carriage return
Unicode codepoint

Flags

Global — find all matches
Case-insensitive
Multiline — ^ and $ match line breaks
Dotall — . matches newlines
Unicode
Sticky

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