Note: CapturePoint Regular Expressions can be written in multiple ways to achieve the same results.
| Regex String | Result |
|
\d |
Matches any digit. |
|
\D |
Matches any character except a digit. |
|
\s |
Matches any whitespace character. |
|
\S |
Matches any character except a whitespace character. |
|
\w |
Matches any letter, digit, or underscore. |
|
\W |
Matches any character other than a letter, digit, or underscore. |
|
. |
Matches any character except for a line break. This can also be used as a placeholder. |
|
\b |
Matches a space that follows before or after a word (Word Boundary) |
|
\B |
Matches when there is no space following a word (Word Boundary) |
|
[A-Z] |
Matches any Uppercase letter A-Z of any length. |
|
[a-z] |
Matches any lowercase letter a-z of any length. |
|
[a-zA-Z] |
Matches any Uppercase or lower case letter of any length. |
|
[A-Z0-9] |
Matches any Uppercase letter or any number of any length. |
|
^ |
Matches the start of the string. |
|
[^] |
Matches anything that is not written in the square brackets. For example if the square brackets had [^\s] then this will match anything other than whitespace. |
|
| |
Pipe symbol generally means ‘or’ as in boolean and or logic. So, your code could say find 1 through 3 or 7 through 9 like this. [1-3 | 7-9] |
|
{1} |
This will look for the preceding element the exact number of times as what is written inside the curly brackets If it shows {1}, then it will grab 1 character. |
|
{2,} |
This will look for the preceding element at least 2 times. |
|
{3,8} |
This will look for the preceding element a minimum of 3 times and at most 8 times. |
|
? |
Matches previous elements zero or one times. This is considered lazy. |
|
?? |
Matches previous elements zero or one times, but as few as possible. |
|
* |
Matches previous elements zero or more times to unlimited number of times. As it is unlimited, it is considered greedy. |
|
*? |
Matches previous elements zero or more times, but as few as possible. |
|
+ |
Matches previous element one or more times. |
|
+? |
Matches previous elements one or more times, but as few as possible. |
|
[ ] |
Matches anything that is written in the square brackets. |
|
[ , ] |
Matches anything that is written in the square brackets and then a comma inside is used as a separator for multiple elements. |
|
[0-9] |
Matches any number with any length of numbers 0-9. |
|
\A |
Matches the start of the string except it is unaffected by a multiline option. |
|
\z |
Matches the end of the input without exception. |
|
\Z |
Matches the end of the string or the point before the final \n at the end of the input. This is unaffected by a multiline option. |
|
\G |
Matches the point that the previous match ended. Used to find contiguous matches. |
|
\f |
Form feed |
|
\n |
Newline |
|
\r |
Carriage Return |
|
\t |
Tab |
|
[\b] |
Matches a backspace. It must be enclosed in these square brackets to have this meaning. |
|
$ |
Matches the end of the string or the point before a final \n at the end of the input. |
