Oct 1, 2012 · In Regex, . refers to any character, be it a number, an aplhabet character, or any other special character. * means zero or more times.

Jun 1, 2017 · Specifically when does ^ mean "match start" and when does it mean "not the following" in regular expressions? From the Wikipedia article and other references, I've …

Javascript RegExp () allows you to specify a multi-line mode (m) which changes the behavior of ^ and $. ^ represents the start of the current line in multi-line mode, otherwise the start of the …

Dec 8, 2018 · The regex compiles fine, and there are already JUnit tests that show how it works. It's just that I'm a bit confused about why the first question mark and colon are there.

How do I make an expression to match absolutely anything (including whitespaces)? Example: Regex: I bought _____ sheep. Matches: I bought sheep. I bought a sheep. I bought five …

For reference, from regular-expressions.info/dot.html: "JavaScript and VBScript do not have an option to make the dot match line break characters. In those languages, you can use a …

Sep 14, 2010 · It indicates that the subpattern is a non-capture subpattern. That means whatever is matched in (?:\w+\s), even though it's enclosed by () it won't appear in the list of matches, …

If you're looking to capture everything up to "abc": /^(.*?)abc/ Explanation: ( ) capture the expression inside the parentheses for access using $1, $2, etc. ^ match start of line .* match …

In regex in general, ^ is negation only at the beginning of a character class. Unless CMake is doing something really funky (to the point where calling their pattern matching language …

Jan 2, 1999 · Parentheses in regular expressions define groups, which is why you need to escape the parentheses to match the literal characters. So to modify the groups just remove all of the …