| Character | Description | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| \a | Match a BELL, \u0007 | ||
| \A | Match at the beginning of the input. Differs from ^ in that \A will not match after a new line within the input. | ||
| \b, outside of a [Set] | Match if the current position is a word boundary. Boundaries occur at the transitions betweem word (\w) and non-word (\W) characters, with combining marks ignored. For better word boundaries, see ICU Boundary Analysis. | ||
| \b, within a [Set] | Match a BACKSPACE, \u0008. | ||
| \B | Match if the current position is not a word boundary. | ||
| \cX | Match a control-X character. | ||
| \d | Match any character with the Unicode General Category of Nd (Number, Decimal Digit.) | ||
| \D | Match any character that is not a decimal digit. | ||
| \e | Match an ESCAPE, \u001B. | ||
| \E | Terminates a \Q ... \E quoted sequence. | ||
| \f | Match a FORM FEED, \u000C. | ||
| \G | Match if the current position is at the end of the previous match. | ||
| \n | Match a LINE FEED, \u000A. | ||
| \N{UNICODE CHARACTER NAME} | Match the named character. | post 2.4 | |
| \p{UNICODE PROPERTY NAME} | Match any character with the specified Unicode Property. | ||
| \P{UNICODE PROPERTY NAME} | Match any character not having the specified Unicode Property. | ||
| \Q | Quotes all following characters until \E. | ||
| \r | Match a CARRIAGE RETURN, \u000D. | ||
| \s | Match a white space character. White space is defined as [\t\n\f\r\p{Z}]. | ||
| \S | Match a non-white space character. | ||
| \t | Match a HORIZONTAL TABULATION, \u0009. | ||
| \uhhhh | Match the character with the hex value hhhh. | ||
| \Uhhhhhhhh | Match the character with the hex value hhhhhhhh. Exactly eight hex digits must be provided, even though the largest Unicode code point is \U0010ffff. | ||
| \w | Match a word character. Word characters are [\p{Ll}\p{Lu}\p{Lt}\p{Lo}\p{Nd}]. | ||
| \W | Match a non-word character. | ||
| \x{hhhh} | Match the character with hex value hhhh | post 2.4 | |
| \xhh | Match the character with two digit hex value hh | post 2.4 | |
| \X | Match a Grapheme Cluster. Partial implementation for ICU 2.4, does not handle Hangul syllables. | ||
| \Z | Match if the current position is at the end of input, but before the final line terminator, if one exists. | ||
| \z | Match if the current position is at the end of input. | ||
| \0nnn | Match the character with octal value nnn | post 2.4 | |
| \n | Back Reference. Match whatever the nth capturing group matched. n must be > 1 and < total number of capture groups in the pattern | post 2.4 | |
| [pattern] | Match any one character from the set. See UnicodeSet for a full description of what may appear in the pattern | ||
| . | Match any character. | ||
| ^ | Match at the beginning of a line. | ||
| $ | Match at the end of a line. | ||
| \ | Quotes the following character. Characters that must be quoted to be treated as literals are * ? + [ ( ) { } ^ $ | \ . / |
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