Be aware that the first ^ in this answer gives the regex a completely different meaning: It makes the regular expression look only for matches starting from the beginning of the string.

Oct 3, 2010 · Now, when the regex engine tries to match against aaaaaaaab, the .* will again consume the entire string. However, since the engine will have reached the end of the string and the pattern is …

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 sheep. I tried usi...

By putting ^ at the beginning of your regex and $ at the end, you ensure that no other characters are allowed before or after your regex. For example, the regex [0-9] matches the strings "9" as well as …

Aug 7, 2008 · Regex Syntax Summary How Regexes Work JavaScript Regular Expressions Footnote †: The statement above that . matches any character is a simplification for pedagogical purposes that is …

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 unescaped …

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, only (\w+) …

Feb 24, 2023 · 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 …

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 "regex" could be …

Oct 16, 2009 · Quick answer: ^[\w*]$ will match a string consisting of a single character, where that character is alphanumeric (letters, numbers) an underscore (_) or an asterisk (*). Details: The " \w " …