From 0 to 9 Advanced

In the last lesson, you learned how to use ranges, for example, [0-9]
But there is an EVEN shorter way to write this.

In Regex there are predefined character classes:
\w - any letter, number, or underscore
\W - anything that is not a letter, number, or underscore
\d - any number
\D - anything that is not a number
\s - any whitespace character
\S - anything that is not a whitespace character

Task

Match all numbers

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Regex Cheatsheet

Here you find every Regex character explained

Anchors

  • ^ - Start of a string
  • $ - End of a string
  • \b - Word boundary
  • \B - Not word boundary

Quantifiers

  • ? - Optional
  • + - 1 or more times
  • * - 0 or more times
  • {n} - Exactly n times
  • {n,} - at least n times
  • {,m} - at most m times
  • {n,m} - Between n and m times

Character Classes

  • [abc] - Character Set
  • [^abc] - Not in character set
  • [a-z] - Range of characters
  • . - Any character except newline
  • \d - Digit
  • \D - Not a digit
  • \w - Word character
  • \W - Not a word character
  • \s - Whitespace
  • \S - Not whitespace

Groups

  • (abc) - Capturing group
  • (?:abc) - Non-capturing group
  • \1 - Group Reference

Lookarounds

  • (?=abc) - Positive lookahead
  • (?!abc) - Negative lookahead
  • (?<=abc) - Positive lookbehind
  • (?<!abc) - Negative lookbehind

Flags

  • g - Global
  • i - Case-insensitive
  • m - Multiline

Other Characters

  • \[Symbol] - Use a Regex Symbol as Text
  • | - Or