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RE Description
. Any character except new line
\d Digit (0 - 9)
\D Not a Digit
\w Word character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _)
\W Not a word character
\s Whitespace (space, tab, newline)
\S Not whitespace
\b Word boundary #\bha means space or nothing before 'ha'
\B Not a word boundary
^ Beginning of a string
$ End of a string
[] Matches characters in bracket, no need for inside in case of escape characters,[1-7] == [1234567] != [-17]
[^ ] Matches characters not in bracket, [^a-c] == all letters except a,b,c
| Either Or
() Group
Quantifiers
* 0 or more
+ 1 or more
? 0 or 1
{3} Exact number
{3, 4} Range of numbers (minimum, maximum)
Meta Characters
.[{()^$?*+ need to be escaped by (back slash)

Text Regular Expression
abcdefghijklmnopqurtuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1234567890
Ha
HaHa
\bHa (using word boundary)
abhishekpathak.com \w+\.com
321-555-4321
123.555.1234
\b{3}[-.]\b\{3}[-.]\b{4}
Mr. Schafer
Mr Smith
Ms David
Mrs. Robinson
Mr. T
M(r\|s\|rs).?\s[A-Z]\w*
cat
mat
pat
bat
[^b]at
CoreyMSchafer@gmail.com
corey.schafer@university.edu
corey-321-schafer@my-work.net
[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+@[a-zA-Z-]+.(com\|edu\|net)
All kind of email addresses [a-zA-Z0-9_.+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9-]+\.[a-zA-Z0-9-.]+

```python

raw string: print("\tTab"): ____Tab ; print(r"\tTab"): \tTab

import re search_in_text = """ abcdefghijklmnopqurtuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 1234567890 """ pattern = re.compile(r'regular_expression_here') searches = pattern.finditer(search_in_text) for search in searches: print(search)```