RegExp Class

Represents compiled regular expresion.

• \ - For characters that are usually treated literally, indicates that the next character is special and not to be interpreted literally. For example, /b/ matches the character b. By placing a backslash in front of b, that is by using /\b/, the character becomes special to mean match a word boundary. For characters that are usually treated specially, indicates that the next character is not special and should be interpreted literally. For example, * is a special character that means 0 or more occurrences of the preceding character should be matched; for example, /a* / means match 0 or more "a"s. To match * literally, precede it with a backslash; for example, /a\* / matches 'a*'.
• ^ - Matches beginning of input. If the multiline flag is set to true, also matches immediately after a line break character. For example, /^A/ does not match the 'A' in "an A", but does match the first 'A' in "An A."
• $ - Matches end of input. If the multiline flag is set to true, also matches immediately before a line break character. For example, /t$/ does not match the 't' in "eater", but does match it in "eat".
• * - Matches the preceding item 0 or more times. For example, /bo* / matches 'boooo' in "A ghost booooed" and 'b' in "A bird warbled", but nothing in "A goat grunted".
• + - Matches the preceding item 1 or more times. Equivalent to {1,}. For example, /a+/ matches the 'a' in "candy" and all the a's in "caaaaaaandy".
• ? - Matches the preceding item 0 or 1 time. For example, /e?le?/ matches the 'el' in "angel" and the 'le' in "angle." If used immediately after any of the quantifiers *, +, ?, or {}, makes the quantifier non-greedy (matching the minimum number of times), as opposed to the default, which is greedy (matching the maximum number of times). Also used in lookahead assertions, described under (?=), (?!), and (?:) in this table.
• . - (The decimal point) matches any single character except the newline characters: \n \r \u2028 or \u2029. ([\s\S] can be used to match any character including newlines.) For example, /.n/ matches 'an' and 'on' in "nay, an apple is on the tree", but not 'nay'.
• (x) - Matches x and remembers the match. These are called capturing parentheses. For example, /(foo)/ matches and remembers 'foo' in "foo bar." The matched substring can be recalled from the resulting array's elements [1], ..., [n] or from the predefined RegExp object's properties $1, ..
• x|y - Matches either x or y. For example, /green|red/ matches 'green' in "green apple" and 'red' in "red apple."
• \b - Matches a word boundary, such as a space. (Not to be confused with [\b].) For example, /\bn\w/ matches the 'no' in "noonday"; /\wy\b/ matches the 'ly' in "possibly yesterday."
• \B - Matches a non-word boundary. For example, /\w\Bn/ matches 'on' in "noonday", and /y\B\w/ matches 'ye' in "possibly yesterday."
• \d - Matches a digit character from any alphabet. For example, /\d/ or /[0-9]/ matches '2' in "B2 is the suite number."
• \D - Matches any non-digit character in any alphabet. For example, /\D/ or /[^0-9]/ matches 'B' in "B2 is the suite number."
• \m - Matches any alpha or numeric character from any alphabet.
• \M - Matches any non-alpha and non-numeric character from any alphabet.
• \a - Matches any alpha character from any alphabet.
• \A - Matches any non-alpha character from any alphabet.
• \c - Matches any control character from any alphabet.
• \C - Matches any non-control character from any alphabet.
• \g - Matches any character that has graphic representation from any alphabet.
• \G - Matches any character that has no graphic representation from any alphabet.
• \p - Matches any printable or space character from any alphabet.
• \P - Matches any non-printable and non-space character from any alphabet.
• \l - Matches any lower case character from any alphabet.
• \L - Matches any non-lower case character from any alphabet.
• \u - Matches any upper case character from any alphabet.
• \U - Matches any non-upper case character from any alphabet.
• \n - Matches any punctuation character from any alphabet.
• \N - Matches any non-punctuation character from any alphabet.
• \s - Matches any space character from any alphabet.
• \S - Matches any non-space character from any alphabet.
• \x - Matches any hexadecimal character.
• \X - Matches any non-hexadecimal character.*