Shortcuts for Regular Expressions : Greedy « Regular Expression « Perl

1. Perl
2. Regular Expression
3. Greedy

Shortcuts for Regular Expressions

    

Pattern     Interpretation
/\d/        Any digit.
/\D/        Anything other than a digit.
/\w/        Any word character, i.e., [_0-9a-zA-Z].
/\W/        Anything other than a word character (match on a non word character).
/\s/        Any white space (tab, return, space, or newline).
/\S/        Anything other than white space.
/./         Any character other than a newline.

The \w pattern matches a single character, not a whole word. 
To match against a word, try \w+.
          

   
    
    
    
  

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