This is my regular expression cheat sheet.
Anchors
^ Start of string or line
\A Start of string
$ End of string or line
\Z End of string
\b Word boundary
\B Not word boundary
\< Start of word
\> End of word
Character Classes
\c Control character
\s Whitespace
\S Not Whitespace
\d Digit
\D Not digit
\w Word
\W Not Word
\x Hexadecimal digit
\O Octal Digit
POSIX Classes
[:upper:] Uppercase letters [A-Z]
[:lower:] Lowercase letters [a-z]
[:alpha:] All letters [A-Za-z]
[:alnum:] Digits and letters [A-Za-z0-9]
[:digit:] Digits [0-9]
[:xdigit:] Hexadecimal digits [0-9a-f]
[:punct:] Punctuation
[:blank:] Space and tab [ \t]
[:space:] Blank characters [ \t\r\n\v\f]
[:cntrl:] Control characters [\x00-\x1F\x7F]
[:graph:] Printed characters [\x21-\x7E]
[:print:] Printed characters and spaces [\x20-\x7E]
[:word:] Digits, letters and underscore [A-Za-z0-9_]
Pattern Modifiers
//g Global Match (all occurrences)
//i Case-insensitive
//m Multiple line
//s Treat string as single line
//x Allow comments and whitespace
//e Evaluate replacement
//U Ungreedy pattern
Escape Sequences
\ Escape following character
\Q Begin literal sequence
\E End literal sequence
Quantifiers
* 0 or more
+ 1 or more
? 0 or 1 (optional)
{3} Exactly 3
{3,} 3 or more
{2,5} 2, 3, 4 or 5
Groups and Ranges
. Any character except newline (\n)
(a|b) a or b
(…) Group
(?:…) Passive (non-capturing) group
[abc] Single character (a or b or c)
[^abc] Single character (not a or b or c)
[a-q] Single character range (a or b … or q)
[A-Z] Single character range (A or B … or Z)
[0-9] Single digit from 0 to 9
Assertions
?= Lookahead assertion
?! Negative lookahead
?<= Lookbehind assertion
?!= or ?<! Negative lookbehind
?> Once-only Subexpression
?() Condition [if then]
?()| Condition [if then else]
?# Comment
Special Characters
\n New line
\r Carriage return
\t Tab
\v Vertical tab
\f Form feed
\ooo Octal character ooo
\xhh Hex character hh
String Replacement
$n n-th non-passive group
$2 “xyz” in /^(abc(xyz))$/
$1 “xyz” in /^(?:abc)(xyz)$/
$` Before matched string
$’ After matched string
$+ Last matched string
$& Entire matched string
